[Reader-list] Flag nationalism

[rashneek kher]

At least it confirms that we have mercenary activists...

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM, SJabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> BJP R-day flags, activists Œstone-pelters¹
> Bashaarat Masood Posted online: Mon Jan 24 2011, 09:12 hrs
> Srinagar : In what could prove an embarrassment for the BJP, the police
> said
> that two of its activists arrested on Saturday, ahead of the party¹s
> planned
> yatra to hoist the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, are known stone-pelters.
> ³We arrested six BJP activists. Two of them turned out to be listed
> stone-throwers,² Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Ashiq Bukhari
> told The Indian Express.
>
> Denying that the men belonged to the party, the state president of
> Bharatiya
> Janata Yuva Morcha Shamsher Singh Manhas said: ³We are for the integrity of
> the state. The police are baffled by our programme... now they are
> inventing
> these stories. We have no idea about the people arrested by the police. We
> have been informed only about arrest of three activists.²
>
> Incidentally, BJP state vice-president Sofi Mohammad Yousuf had confirmed
> the arrest of the six party activists, calling it an attempt to foil the
> party¹s Republic Day programme. ³We were making preparations for the
> welcome
> of BJP activists visiting Kashmir. When our activists left home, some of
> them were arrested,² Yousuf told The Indian Express.
>
> Of the six alleged BJP activists, held from Srinagar for ³violating²
> prohibitory orders, were 22-year-old Wasim Hassan and Imtiyaz Ahmad, 24,
> both residents of downtown Srinagar, a stronghold of separatists.
>
> Sources say that Hassan, a resident of Qamarwari, and Ahmad of Nawab Bazar
> were involved in stone-throwing during the June uprising and that police
> are
> investigating cases against them.
>
> Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Shiv Murari Sahai confirmed the same.
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