 "A CRPF jawan stands guard as situation in Kashmir continues to be tense and uncertain, in Srinagar, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. There are apperhenensions of prolonged law and order problem in the Valley | Photo: PTI")
The idea of hoisting the tricolour in the Kashmir valley must be seared in the mind of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He can probably never forget the embarrassment of January 26, 1992 when he accompanied Murli Manohar Joshi, then the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to hoist the tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk. He was the coordinator of the 15,000 km long Rashtirya Ekta Yatra (national unity march) led by Joshi from Kanyakumari to Kashmir to hoist the tricolour in Srinagar.
Photographs of that winter morning morning show Joshi fidgeting with the national flag he had brought with
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