Is Omar Abdullah right in arresting BJP leaders?

ITS NOT BJP OR CONGRESS, AN INDIAN THERE SHOULD BE TO HOIST NATIONAL FLAG.  ALL INDIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO HOIST FLAG ANYWHERE IN INDIA, IRRESPECTIVE OF PLACE.

Kavitha,

Referring part of your statement:  "This activity may arouse a sense of patriotism in the people and will lead to problems in the country". 

This activity ought have been aimed to raise level of patriotism. Why should it lead to problems is not clear. And if it does for separatist elements  this part was needed to be addressed through good governance.

Putting problems under carpet was never a known method to solve issues. 

Kavitha I am in total agreement with you. How many of these leaders hoist flags in their house?

It is not a constitutional task that Omar is doing. It is only a political stunt, in other word we can say he is giving chance to BJP to get advantage.

very true, Omar should have raised himself from the petty politics & allowed only a few leaders to hoist the flag. Even he could have joined in the movement. This was an opportunity lost to asertain India's claim on J&K.

Though i am not an ardent follower of BJP, i fail to understand the mentality of you guys. You all seem to have a preconceived opinion on BJP, If the same thing was done by any other party it would be called as secular movement and when the same is done by BJP it becomes communal and vote bank politics. just to remind everyone that we had a better rule under NDA - the corruption was comparitively less, the inflation was not such high.

No he was not right in arresting the BJP leaders, but they were freed anyway later. That was just another piece of drama to gain some sort of a political mileage. JKLF too came out with their own flag which was yet another boring episode of the same story. But the point here is that there was no shoot-outs for which Omar should be accoladed.

Yes, it's a trend now to alienate from BJP on the pretext of being secular. We forget that we are a part of a system where caste and religion play the decisive role from allocating tickets to the formation of government. Why we deny this fact?

As far as the performance of the government is concerned, the facts are well evident. But still we are supposed to criticize BJP because we are secular, in the same manner all big and small parties join hands together under the veil of secularism to form the government and plunder the nation. If they proclaim themselves secular there won't be any ideaological differences to join hands. Think over this.

Thanks Nagesh,

I think this is the best insight on this issue. Flag must be hoisted there minus any propaganda. Instead of BJP, Omar should himself go to hoist the flag.

The fundamental question is why law and order is on stake on the matter of hoisting of our tricolour. Keep aside BJP. Will you able to hoist our flag at Lal Chowk? Why anyone can't hoist flag there that is the question. It's not who is hoisting there.

So, should it not be allowed becasue BJP will get the mileage? So, why not the government acts in the right direction to get the mileage.

Omar's step can't be appreciated. This is not a matter of political parties vote politics but to hoist our own national flag on own soil. Separatist frequently dares to hoist Pak's national flag in Kashmir, in that case  has Omer taken any bold step?

congress torturing BJP for their demand of parliament enquiry of 2g scam.  why donot they arrest these persone and suresh kalmadi,   350crore IAS couple and swiss bank account holders.

Is there any public forum in the country that raises its concern on any issue? Not exactly. We never do more than writing blogs. Politics over tricolour is when the government tries to restrict the flag hoisting to appease some group or faction or just to escape from the situation.
Some would say "it's not a right time." Then can anyone say when the right time will come. NEVER. The things will keep on escalating and slipping beyond our hands. Time has come to take decisions, take actions, We should strive to build an atmosphere for a greater political will to hit the root of the problem. Unfortunately, all political parties here lack this vision and try to just avoid the situation.

This is an irony of Indian politics. Political leaders are always short-term goals. They lack vision. Should not avoid popping a bitter pill that can give a long-term remedy. A greater level of political will is needed to resolve such issues like terrorism, separatist movements etc. It's an unfortunate decision to stop hoisting our National Flag on the pretext of internal disturbance.

See the irony, they have all courage, force and capablities to stop people moving ahead with our flag but fail to restrict the infiltration which is a regular phenomenon. Very sad and unfortunate.