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Big contingent of M.P. BJP workers to reach Bangalore

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, AUG 31. The Bharatiya Janata Party today sharpened its attack on the Congress claiming that the former always stood for national pride and dignity of the national flag whereas the latter only tried to monopolise the Tricolour.

The State BJP general secretary in-charge of organisational affairs, Kaptan Singh Solanki, announced that the party would continue its movement for "National Flag and Vande Mataram" and the weeklong "satyagrah" starting in Bangalore tomorrow until the "false" cases against the former Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, were formally withdrawn. He announced that thousands of party workers from Madhya Pradesh would reach Bangalore to join the satyagrah on September 2.

Mr. Solanki said "the Congress is a victim of ideological confusion. It has continuously insulted the saffron flag to keep the Left parties in good humour," adding that it had fallen in its own trap by taking legal action against Ms. Bharti, who had only tried to hoist the national flag at Hubli.

Mr. Solanki said the Congress had tried to perpetuate a myth by claiming sacrifices for the cause of the Tricolour. On the contrary, he said, it was the founder of Jan Sangh, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who had led a campaign in Jammu and Kashmir in 1951-52 and sacrificed his life for the cause of the national flag. This was at a time when the Congress had approved the demand for a separate Constitution in that State. "Much later, when Pakistani flags were a common sight in Srinagar, it was the BJP president, Murli Manohar Joshi, who had hoisted the national flag at Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar."

He said that the Congress-led Government in Karnataka had acted against the dignity of the national flag by

taking legal action against Ms. Bharti. "While Ms. Bharti had gone there to hoist the national flag, the Karnataka Government had spent Rs. 3 crores on special security arrangements to prevent her from doing so."

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