Rahul Gandhi won’t unfurl Tricolour at Lal Chowk as a result of it’s RSS agenda: Congress

While the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is slated to enter Jammu and Kashmir on January 19, AICC in-charge of Jammu & Kashmir and occasion MP Rajni Patil mentioned on Tuesday that Gandhi won’t hoist India’s nationwide flag at Lal Chowk. She mentioned that the occasion believes that the unfurling Tricolor on the Lal Chowk in Kashmir is a part of ‘the RSS agenda’. Instead, Gandhi will hoist the nationwide flag at occasion headquarters in Srinagar on January 30, Patil mentioned.

“We do not believe in the agenda of the RSS to hoist the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, where it has already flown high,” Patil mentioned when pressed about Rahul Gandhi’s plan to unfurl the nationwide flag on the finish of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on January 30. According to the reviews, the ultimate gathering to rejoice the conclusion of the Yatra will likely be held at Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC).

Patil was addressing the media after about 60 members of Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Azad Party (DAP), a lot of whom had been founding members of the DAP, rejoined the Congress on Tuesday. Nizam-ud-Din Khatana, a two-time former MLC, and Gulzar Khatana, former vice-chairman of the Gujjar and Bakerwal Advisory Board, are amongst those that have stop DAP.

Providing extra details about the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which can arrive in Jammu on January 19, Patil mentioned the march will relaxation for the evening. Former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and ex-minister Choudhary Lal Singh have indicated that they may take part within the Yatra in Lakhanpur subsequent week. According to Patil, Omar Abdullah is additionally more likely to be part of the Yatra in Kashmir, whereas CPI(M) chief M Y Tarigami, Awami National Conference chief Muzaffar Shah, and Shiv Sena leaders would participate at totally different places.

Patil said that ex-CM Mehbooba Mufti has expressed her want to affix the Yatra with her mom and daughter, however it’s unclear the place the three would meet. According to an announcement issued by Uddhav Thackeray Sena, MP Sanjay Raut, who’s visiting Jammu for 3 days, would additionally be one of many individuals. Reports point out that the Congress has written to 21 political events inviting them to attend the Yatra at its conclusion in Srinagar.

Patil said that necessary leaders from India and outdoors will attend the SKICC ceremony to rejoice the completion of the Yatra. Reacting to Patil’s feedback about flag-hoisting at Lal Chowk being the RSS’s agenda, the BJP responded by saying that if given an choice, the occasion want to see the Tricolor unfurled at Lal Chowk on January 26 yearly.

“Making Lal Chowk, which had been the nerve centre of separatism, the nerve centre of nationalism will be the answer to all separatist activities there. Unfurling the Tricolour there is not RSS agenda, but it is India vs separatist forces in Kashmir, and Lal Chowk being the nerve centre of Kashmir politics, only nationalist forces shall be there,” mentioned BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir chief spokesperson Sunil Sethi.

Alleging that the Congress along with National Conference has utilized Lal Chowk as a logo of particular ideology since 1947, he added that “even if it wants to unfurl the Tricolour there, it will make uneasy both the National Conference and PDP who are supporting the Rahul Gandhi yatra”.

When requested in regards to the significance of Lal Chowk, he was quoted as saying that it was the nerve heart of Kashmir politics and a middle of separatist exercise the place anti-India and pro-Pakistan statements had been made up to now. “If one needs to disregard its historic significance, it’s one’s personal selection, however it’s a massive factor that the tricolour is unfurled there,’’ he mentioned.