[Reader-list] Flag nationalism

[Lalit Ambardar]

How ironic ?
'Guys' went scot free for 'stone pelting' but will now face prosecution for 'attempt' to hoist the 'flag'.. ...???.....
Rgds all
LA
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> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:49:08 +0530
> From: rashneek at gmail.com
> To: sonia.jabbar at gmail.com
> CC: reader-list at sarai.net
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Flag nationalism
> 
> 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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