Srinagar: The Kashmir unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hoisted 3000 saffron flags in certain civil lines areas of the city to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Srinagar.
The Prime Minister will be addressing a public rally at Bakshi Stadium here on March 07, preparations for which both at the administration as well as the party levels stand completed.
A party leader told ‘Kashmir Images’ that BJP supporters from across J&K will be arriving in Srinagar to attend PM’s rally at Bakshi Stadium and that their boarding and lodging arrangements have already been finalized.
“We expect more than two lakh people to join the PM’s rally on Thursday, making it a momentous day in J&K’s history. BJP supporters from across the UT will be converging here a day before the PM addresses the public at Bakshi Stadium,” he said.
He also informed that the BJP workers have already clamped 3000 saffron flags in parts of the city to celebrate the PM’s visit, his second visit to the Union Territory in over two weeks.
The flags have been put up in Jawahar Nagar, the location of the party office in Srinagar, Rambagh, Lal Mandi, Wazir Bagh, Abdullah Bridge and TRC areas. Besides this, around 1000 hoardings and banners have also been put together.
BJP’s State spokesperson Altaf Thakur said the party is preparing to use 10,000 flags in Srinagar ahead of PM Modi’s arrival.
“The BJP Kashmir unit is gearing up to wrap Srinagar in ‘Bhagwa’ (saffron colour) since this is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to Srinagar after 2019. We will spare no moment to make the event a momentous day in the history of J&K,” Thakur told the media at Abdullah Bridge here.
