Earlier Indian Flag Was Burnt, Today It Can Be Hoisted Across J&K: Thakur

Mumbai: Union Minister Anurag Thakur has said that in the past, the Indian flag was burnt in Jammu and Kashmir but now it can be hoisted anywhere.

He was tending to a social event at the Talkatora Stadium here during the terrific finale of the young-driven initiation program ‘Badhe Chalo’ brought about by the Ministry of Culture as a feature of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to “impart a more profound feeling of affection for the country”.

In his address, he recited slogans like ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ and urged the group to go along with him in reciting.

Thakur, who holds the arrangement of Information and Broadcasting and Youth Affairs and Sports, reviewed the times of 2011 when he, as the then head of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, was essential for an Ekta Yatra.

“Around then, it was a wrongdoing to raise a public banner in Kashmir,” he claimed.

“Be that as it may, yet after the annulment of Article 370 and Article 35A under the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, presently one can raise the public banner in any edge of Jammu and Kashmir and at whenever,” he said.

Thakur said he and senior pioneers Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj were “captured” from the state’s line region in 2011.

“In any case, I should tell you, countless adolescents were prepared to forfeit their lives to lift the public banner at Lal Chowk,” he reviewed.

On August 5, 2019, the Center finished the extraordinary status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcated the recent state into Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

Thakur further expressed that there was a period “when the Tiranga was scorched in the Valley” and “misuses were heaved for the sake of Hindustani” there.

“Yet, presently, a family of J-K are reciting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and raising Tiranga,” he said.

The pastor, alongside Union Minister for Culture and Tourism G Kishan Reddy, managed a ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ promise to individuals present at the event.

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