PM Modi made it possible for the Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi to hoist flag at Lal Chowk. The BJP on Sunday slammed Rahul Gandhi’s “uncalled for and unwarranted” attack on the government and the RSS, and asked him to acknowledge that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led dispensation had created the conditions that allowed him to unfurl the national flag in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk.
Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said it was Mr. Modi’s decisive leadership that led to the revocation of Article 370, bringing peace in the Valley with the tricolour now being unfurled on Independence Day and Republic Day, even in the erstwhile den of terror outfits.
“How could Rahul Gandhi peacefully raise the Tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk today? It happened because PM Modi abrogated Article 370. Jammu and Kashmir received a high number of tourists. During the Congress government, there was terrorism and fear in Kashmir,” said Mr Prasad yesterday.
BJP MP Rajyavardhan Rathore said that the Modi government has created such a situation in Kashmir that now any Indian citizen can raise the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
“Rahul Gandhi proudly raised the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. Today, the Modi government has created such a situation in Kashmir that now any Indian citizen can hoist the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in Kashmir,” he said.
Jammu and Kashmir BJP President Ravinder Raina said that PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah get the credit for the fact that Rahul Gandhi could raise the national flag there amid peace and brotherhood.
“After 70 years, a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family has remembered to raise the Tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk. PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah get the credit for the fact that Rahul Gandhi could raise the national flag there amid peace and brotherhood,” said Mr Raina.
