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Srinagar, Feb 23: (UNI) A person from Haryana was on Saturday detained when he tried to hoist tri-colour at historic Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of the summer capital, official sources said.
They said one person who identified himself as Deepak Sharma, a resident of Haryana and worker of Akali Dal, was raising slogans tried to hoist National flag at Gantaghar, Lal Chowk, this morning. However, he was immediately overpowered by police and put into a vehicle before the disturbance in the area.
He was later taken to police Kothibagh police station. Attempt to hoist the Tri-colour in Srinagar comes at a time when members of the sikh community provided shelter, food and transport facilities to Kashmiri students and traders in different parts of the country following reports about attack on them after the Pulwama attack by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on CRPF convoy in which over 44 personnel were killed on February 14.
However, this is not the first time that such an attempt was made in Lal Chowk during the past about three decades. Last year about a dozen activists of Shiv Sena tried to hoist the tri-colour at the Gantaghar but were detained by the police.
In 1992, when militancy was at its peak in Kashmir, the then BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi, who was accompanied by some party colleagues, unfurled tricolor at the historic place on the occasion of Republic Day (RD) amid firing of rockets by militants in the city.