BJP determined to raise tri-colour at Lal Chowk

The Bharatiya Janata Party is determined to go ahead with its plan to hoist the tricolor at Lal Chowk, party leader Sushma Swaraj said, a day after she, Arun Jaitley, and Ananth Kumar were deported to Madhopur on Punjab border.

The trio was evicted from Jammu airport under police cover before being driven to Madhopur at 9 pm on Monday.

Swaraj said that she, Jaitely and Anant Kumar would move again to lead BJP workers to enter J&K on Tuesday.

“We will reach Lal Chowk, Srinagar on Jan 26 with party workers to hoist the national flag and celebrate the Republic Day,” she said.

“We did not come for a Satyagraha. We have come for Tiranga Yatra. We will not give up come what may and we will enter J&K again,” the BJP leader said.

About 50,000 BJP and Bharatiya Janata Yuba Morcha activists are expected to assemble at Madhpur on Tuesday where first, they will be addressed by senior party leaders and then they will head for Lakhanpur border to enter J&K.

Swaraj, Jaitley and Kumar held a close door meeting alongwith BJYM national president Anurag Thakur to decide their strategy for Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the J&K government has intensified security patrolling against the procession entering the state.

State BJP president Shamsher Singh Manhas said the top BJP leaders would fulfil their aim for which they were dispatched to Jammu and Kashmir.
?Now it is up to the state government, whether they allow the leaders to fulfill the aim or not,? he said.

Police continued crackdown on BJP workers and leaders in Jammu city, taking two senior leaders– state unit- Chaman Lal Gupta and Ashok Khajuria– into preventive custody.

To prevent BJP?s ?Ekta Yatra? from entering the state, the J&K administration sealed seven entry points with Punjab.

About 5000 police and CRPF personnel have been deployed at the border of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

Section 144 has been imposed in the district and at Lakhanpur where BJP has planned a rally on Tuesday before proceeding to Srinagar.