Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch L K Advani on Sunday said curbs should be targeted to those who have declared that the national flag would not be allowed to put up at Lal Chowk in Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar.
Party senior leader Arun Jaitley also slammed the Prime Minister saying hoisting national flag cannot be a divisive issue and charged the government of “psychologically surrendering to the separatists.”
Advani was vocal on his latest blog.
“If the rationale for the prohibitory orders is apprehension of breach of peace, curbs should be targeted towards those who have declared that they will not let the tricolour be put up at the Lal Chowk and certainly not against those who have been repeatedly asserting that they will peacefully, and respectfully, unfurl the Tricolour at Lal Chowk,” Advani wrote.
The BJP’s youth workers are on their way from West Bengal to Jammu and Kashmir to hoist the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar amid an appeal by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, targetting the BJP, to show restraint and not attempt to score political points over Republic Day.
The PM called the move a “divisive agenda”.
The J & K government has announced that they would not allow the BJP to hoist the National Flag at the Lal Chowk for maintaining peace.
In his blog titled “Let not the state surrender to separatist”, Advani said:” I wish the P.M. realises that these young men [BJP Yuva Morcha] led by Anurag Thakur are not trying to score a political point; they are challenging the separatists. And the State is surrendering to them !”
In a press conference in New Delhi on Sunday, BJP leader Arun Jaitley slammed the Union government led by Congress and said the attempts to stop the youth workers of BJP from reaching Srinagar is “a disproportionate panic reaction.”
“Assertion of Indian sovereignty on Indian soil is considered unacceptable. It is a regrettable,” said Jaitley.
He slammed the Prime Minister for calling the hoisting of the flag a divisive issue.
He said the Prime Minister is quiet on the issue of those who are espousing the cause of dividing India and singing to the tune of separatists.
“We completely reject what he [PM] has said. It is a psychological surrender to separatism,” Jaitley said.
“The BJP is determined. It is a peaceful assertion of nationalist sentiments,” he said.