Tiranga Yatra : Hoist Indian Flag on Republic Day

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manish.pawar

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India is in the midst of a grave crisis. The Central government as well as the State government have decided to stop the hoisting of the Indian flag on Republic day at Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir which is an integral state of India. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had announced his opposition to the culmination of BJP's nationwide Ekta Yatra in Srinagar. Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh too feels likewise.

Paramilitary forces have been deployed to stop the flag march before Srinagar. But, is this right for the Indian government to stop the national flag hoisting event in Srinagar. Is hoisting the national flag on Indian soil a crime? Yes, that's what the government feels. This can happen only in India.

It's not a matter of politics or supporting BJP, but the issue is very much significant. A country that dreams of becoming a global superpower can't allow its citizens to plant the national flag on its soil. Instead, a Pakistani flag is currently waving at the onlookers at Lal Chowk, Srinagar and the government wants to keep it. Hilarious, isn't it. The world will just laugh at the Indians.

Nothing can be worse than this- in a country where Dr. Binayak Sen works for the poor in remote areas and gets life imprisonment in return, telecom minister, D. Raja stays unarrested despite costing the country a loss of 176,000 crore rupees in the 2G scam and the Central and State government prevents the hoisting of the national flag at If Indians can't plant the national flag on Indian soil, that's a matter of national shame and no political game. How weak can the government be? Giving in to the wishes of the separatists will only make them even more aggressive, more resentful against India. It will only fuel further acts of separatism in the country. So, Let's whole-heartedly support the BJP workers to unfurl the Pakistani flag and hoist the Indian tricolor at Lal Chowk on Janyary 26- the Republic Day of India.
 
The support is for the ‘Tiranga’ and not for BJP

The whole Indian Flag Hoisting issue is based on two points.

1. It is every Indian’s constitutional right to hoist the national flag.

2. It is necessary to maintain peace and harmony in a place.

While most of the debates over the issue has put the two points against each other, actually both should happen together, isn’t it? And how can that happen? By ‘Good Governance’. And that is the point almost all have missed.

Let me describe it with an analogy. In India, we have heard about clashes between Muslims and Hindus when processions of one group pass through the area of other group. Even clashes occur between groups within one religion during such processions. And what is a govt. expected to do in that case? They take security measures, talk to community leaders and do everything to maintain peace while letting the procession to move through the area. It is state’s duty to maintain law and order and every one is given scope by the state to execute his right. Doesn’t the Tiranga Yatra episode look similar? As per the law of the land, the govt. can’t deny any citizen of his right to hoist the flag. So question of stopping a group from doing that does not arise. If there is any law and order implications as the state and central govt. apprehend (law and order implications due to hoisting tricolor is no less shameful), it is state’s duty to contain it. Even the CM admits that only a handful of people(read separatists) may oppose the Yatra in the valley. Then why is the talk on the righteousness of the Yatra? To hide the flaws in the own system? Perhaps.

Probably, the govt. in the J&K believes that it is not strong enough to contain a protest by ‘few hundred of people’ and most importantly it thinks it may loose some of its support by letting Tiranga fly on Lal Chowk. The high decibel noise is being made because a political party is planning this Yatra. I believe, there wouldn’t have been any resistance from the govt.s(at state and the center) if a non-political outfit planned such program. The leaders in power see an opportunity in painting the political adversaries (who is in opposition trying to put them on the mat on several issues) as trouble makers. But in the process, they are giving scope to the real trouble makers in the valley: the separatists. When the govt. hadn’t reacted when the Pakistan Flag was hoisted at Lal Chowk last Eid, it is only political opportunism that forced the CM to react and try to stop the hoisting of Indian National Flag.

That brings us to the next question? Is BJP clean on this? Is it not trying to gain political brownie points over the episode? Indeed, they are. There should not be any doubt that there is no political angle behind BJP’s Yatra plans. But what’s wrong with that? Does it matter who is trying to hoist the flag as long as that flag is Indian national flag? I and most of the Indians wouldn’t have opposed if the Congress had planned such Yatra. The support is for the ‘Tiranga’ and not for any particular party as we take pride in our flag. But surrendering to the separatists and starting political blame game to shift the focus from own inability is not what Indians can support.
 
BJP declared this so "early"....I agree that it is every Indian's right to hoist National Flag but now this is sounding more political. If BJP leaders.....with low profile hoist flag on 26 January (today) no body would have objected but now it's like political stunt. Though, it is unfortunate that we can't hoist flag on our land.
 
Nationalists lost , Separatists Won

BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar, arrested as a preventive measure to foil the party's bid to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day, have been released on Wednesday.
Following the release, the three leaders have lashed out at the Omar Abdullah government for foiling their Tiranga Yatra to Srinagar.
"On Republic Day two BJP leaders have been put behind the bras. The government will have to answer on this. We will hoist the flag in Kathua and then hold a press conference in Jammu," said Sushma Swaraj.

She also confirmed that the Yatra will not be continued as it was scheduled to end on the Republic Day. "Ekata Yatra ends today," said Swaraj.

Senior BJP leader LK Advani too hit out at Omar Abdullah for blocking the BJP's efforts to hoist the Tricoulour in Srinagar's Lal Chowk.

htt p:/ /ibnlive.in.com/news /bjp-leaders-blame-omar-for-foiling-yatra/141555-37-64.html
 
it is very shameful act by the Congress government to not to host Indian National flag in Indian territory. It is no ways political blame game, even if it is, from Indian citizen point of view i think this is highly uncalled. government is lacking in many aspects and showing its incompetence and sickularism again and again. I think it is time government wakes up and starts actually functioning for its country.
 
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