Chandigarh: The BJP Tuesday asserted thatthere was no change in its plan to hoist the tricolour at LalChowk in Srinagar on Wednesday and said it was the government'sduty to maintain law and order. "There is no change in the plan. We are proceedingahead to unfurl the national flag at Lal Chowk tomorrow. It isfor the Central and the J&K government to see whether theywant to embolden the separatists by stopping us or let thenationalism prevail," senior BJP leader and Punjab's LocalBodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia said on phone.
He said that hoisting the national flag was the"fundamental right of every citizen and nobody can stop usfrom exercising that right". "The plea of the government that the (BJYM's) EktaYatra will disturb peace is unfounded. The Yatra is aimed topromote brotherhood and nationalist feeling," he said.
Kalia said that Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha presidentand Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur will later today lead the Yatrainto Jammu from the Lakhanpur border.
The authorities have sealed the border with Punjab withheavy deployment of police and paramilitary forces. Barbedwire has been put up along the Ravi bridge at Madhopur toprevent any movement of people from Punjab side intoLakhanpur.
He said despite prohibitory imposed at Lakhanpurborder, the BJYM Yatra will proceed from Madhopur inPathankot, which is located close to the Lakhanpur border.
Jammu is about 90 kms from Lakhanpur, while Lal Chowkis nearly 390 kms from there.
"Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley andAnanth Kumar and Shanta Kumar are also camping at Pathankot.They will accompany the Yatra," Kalia said.
Swaraj, Jaitley and Ananth Kumar were yesterday stoppedat Jammu airpo! rt ahead of the party's march to Srinagar tohoist the tricolour and later taken out of the state toMadhopur in Punjab by road in separate vehicles by stateofficials.
Meanwhile, a large number of BJP workers and leaders,including Punjab Transport Minister Mohan Lal, Amritsar LokSabha MP Navjot Singh Sidhu and Punjab BJP president AshwaniSharma are camping at Madhopur.
A large number of youth BJP activists from neighbouringBJP-ruled Himachal Pradesh will also join the yatra.
PTI
Jammu is about 90 kms from Lakhanpur, while Lal Chowkis nearly 390 kms from there.
"Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley andAnanth Kumar and Shanta Kumar are also camping at Pathankot.They will accompany the Yatra," Kalia said.
Swaraj, Jaitley and Ananth Kumar were yesterday stoppedat Jammu airpo! rt ahead of the party's march to Srinagar tohoist the tricolour and later taken out of the state toMadhopur in Punjab by road in separate vehicles by stateofficials.
Meanwhile, a large number of BJP workers and leaders,including Punjab Transport Minister Mohan Lal, Amritsar LokSabha MP Navjot Singh Sidhu and Punjab BJP president AshwaniSharma are camping at Madhopur.
A large number of youth BJP activists from neighbouringBJP-ruled Himachal Pradesh will also join the yatra.
PTI
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