Tricolour becomes a rallying point in NIT Srinagar conflict

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Apr 09 2016 11:26 AM
Harshita

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NIT Srinagar is going through a major conflicts where alleged police violence and unprecedented military presence inside campus in the past week India’s national flag is at the centre of the conflict at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar that has seen.

Non local student used to host Tricolor in their ongoing protest to show nationalistic sentiments but many local and kashmiris on campus felt it is aimed to provoking the local population and their sentiments in the valley.

The flag issue came under the limelight when representatives of non-local student told home minister team “The police have our Tricolour. We want it back.”, Deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh defended the students’ right to get their flag back in a media interview, but raised questions about hoisting the Tricolour during clashes.

On social media, a photo of non-Kashmiri students hoisting a hand-made paper Tricolour on campus went viral, with #TirangaInNITSrinagar trending on Twitter.

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