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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi unfurled the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, marking the end of his Bharat Jodo Yatra. (Photo: ANI)
Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina said the credit for hoisting the national flag by Gandhi goes to Modi, who normalized the situation in the Valley by abrogating Article 370.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi The BJP on Sunday said such an atmosphere has been created in Kashmir that any Indian can proudly hoist the national flag at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk and asked a Congress leader Rahul Gandhi To thank him for the change in the valley.
The remarks by BJP spokesperson and former Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore came after Gandhi unfurled the tricolor at the historic Ghanta Ghar in Lal Chowk as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra, which ends on Monday.
Rahul Gandhi proudly hoisting the tricolor at Lal Chowk. PM Modi and his government had created such a situation in Kashmir that every Indian can proudly hoist the tricolor there. Rahul Gandhi should thank Modi ji after unfurling the tricolor.
Expressing similar views, J&K BJP president Ravinder Raina said that the credit for hoisting the national flag by Gandhi goes to Modi who normalized the situation in the Valley by abrogating Article 370.
Gandhi was able to do this because of the policies of Prime Minister Modi, who dealt a deep blow to separatism and terrorism by abrogating Article 370 (in 2019) and strengthened nationalist forces, paving the way for normalization of the situation and return of peace. region, he said in Jammu.
Raina said that the Congress ruled the country for most of the last seven decades but none of its leaders dared to hoist the tricolor at Lal Chowk.
He said Modi along with the then BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi had hoisted the national flag at the same place when militancy was at its peak in 1990.
Peace and normalcy have returned to Kashmir today due to the efforts of Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. The BJP leader said that Gandhi was able to go to Lal Chowk and unfurl the tricolor, which no other leader of his party could do in the last 70 years.
Referring to AICC in-charge JK Rajni Patil’s recent statement that Gandhi will hoist the national flag at the party headquarters instead of Lal Chowk, which is the agenda of the RSS, Raina said, “Though late, the Congress has started working on the RSS nationalist agenda”.
Taking a dig at the Congress, he said, “We want to tell Gandhi and his party leaders to learn from those RSS members who have nationalist sentiments in their heart and who work for the country.”
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