Lal Chowk: After 17 yrs, politician unfurls tricolour

However, since ’92 security forces were holding the R-Day function at Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of Jammu and Kashmir summer capital.

BJP leader R P Singh, in charge of Jammu and Kashmir affairs, hoisted the national flag at Lal Chowk in the presence of nearly 200 supporters including party’s Kashmir unit President Sofi Mohammad Yousuf.

“This place used to be a den of separatists. This is our message to them that Kashmir is an integral part of India,” Singh said.