PM Modi recollects his Tiranga Yatra to Lal Chowk in parliament

On eighth February 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke in Lok Sabha in response to the movement of due to the President’s deal with. During his speech, he recalled his go to to Lal Chowk in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir the place he unfurled the nationwide flag as his Ekta Yatra of 1991 concluded there. This comment by PM Modi in his speech got here as a response to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who not too long ago concluded his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk and unfurled the nationwide flag there.

PM Narendra Modi stated, “The issue of Jammu and Kashmir was also discussed here in the house. And those who have recently visited to Jammu and Kashmir might have seen how you can go there and have a tour. In the second half of the last century, I too took a Yatra to Jammu and Kashmir with the intent to unfurl the tricolor at Lal Chowk. At that time, the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir had pasted posters that read ‘one who is a real son of his mother should try and dare to unfurl the Indian flag Tricolour at the Lal Chowk of Srinagar. We will see if he manages to go back alive.’ On 24th January of that year, I said in a public meeting in Jammu, that I will reach Lal Chowk on 26th January at 11 am sharp. I will come without any security. I will come without a bulletproof jacket. Who is the real son of his mother, will be decided in the Lal Chowk of Srinagar on 26th January.”

He added, “Those had been the occasions. After unfurling the tricolor at Lal Chowk, folks and media requested me normally our nationwide flag is honored by our armed forces on twenty sixth January. I advised them that immediately even the armed forces of the enemy are saluting our nationwide flag, as there have been bullets fired round by the terrorists. Today there’s peace. You can go there fearlessly in a bunch of tons of. This is the state of affairs there immediately. Today the folks in Jammu and Kashmir are celebrating the pageant of democracy. People there are observing the Har Ghar Tiranga marketing campaign. Some folks used to say that there generally is a downside as a result of tricolor in Jammu and Kashmir. See how the occasions have modified, even these persons are taking part within the Tiranga Yatra. When all this was occurring, theatres in Srinagar had been operating houseful, and separatists had been seen nowhere.

After the exceptional success of the Ram Rath Yatra led by LK Advani, the BJP had give you Ekta Yatra in 1992. Kashmir had then change into residence to Islamic terrorists and Kashmiri Pandits had been compelled to go away their properties on nineteenth January 1990. Those who resisted had been killed. Terrorists had been brazenly threatening the Indian republic that they’ll draw out Kashmir from India on the idea of faith. Insulting the nationwide symbols of India was one of many acts terrorists would repeatedly use to mock the most important democratic nation day in and time out. It was presently that the BJP organized the Ekta Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Waving the Indian flag on the Lal Chowk in Srinagar was to be the conclusive level of this yatra. Modi was one of many key organizers of this yatra led by Dr Murli Manohar Joshi.