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BJP abandons march through Kashmir
SRINAGAR (India). Jan 25: A Hindu nationalist leader abandoned plans to drive through Kashmir to defy Muslim militants today and accepted an offer of an official airlift.
A senior official said Murli Manohar Joshi, who has led an antl-separatlst motorcade of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the southern tip of India, accepted the offer some 240 km (150 miles) from his northern goal. the rebellious city of Srinagar.
■ Police and the BJP said Joshi's motorcade had been defeated by nature, tn the form of landslides blocking the Himalayan highway to Srinagar, and not by militant vows to at tack the convoy.
Joshi will take a military helicopter to Srinagar to hoist
the Indian flag on Sunday, republic day in defiance of militants who haye raised the flag of neighbouring Islamic Pakistan, in past years.
Rumours swept Srinagar that Joshi had been arrested but both the BJP and Kashmiri officials denied this.
Joshi had already trimmed his cavalcade to about 500 people from 50,000 after militants struck the boldest blow in their two-year-old revolt on Friday, blasting the regional police chief's office as they discussed security for the BJP.
The bomb blast killed a police orderly and seriously wounded at least four officers of the region's top security echelon.
Today a prominent militant leader told Reuters several groups had worked together to
plan the attack and that a volunteer had placed a time bomb in the office.
Javed Ahmed Mir, military •chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). which favours. Kashmir's independence from both India and Pakistan, said Joshi's flag-hoisting ceremony would be stopped because ft would symbolically establish Indian rule.
"We have formed death squads and ordered them to stop the ceremony whichever way they can." he said in a telephone Interview.
The army took control of the city's Lal Chowk (red square), where Joshi plans to hoist the flag, with troops commandeering several homes in the area and placing machineguns and rocket launch-
ers at street corners.
Indian authorities clamped curfews on Srinagar and other Kashmiri towns, to protect both the BJP and the security forces.
Reporters heard army officers with loudhallers telling residents cooped up in their houses that one bullet would invite instant and heavy retaliation.
Police reported five militant hit-and-run attacks in and around Srinagar this morning. The only casualty was a man. said by residents to have been unarmed, killed when paramilitary troops fired at their attackers.
Sporadic gunshots could be heard In Srinagar and Mir said:
"There will be continuous action until Sunday evening."
The BJP says Joshi s 15.000 km (9.000 mile) 'ekta yatra'. or unity march, is aimed at countering the Muslim insurgency in Kashmir and a decade-long revolt by Sikhs tn the state of Punjab.
Opponents of the BJP. which has surged in just over two years from a fringe party to opposition status, allege the march panders to Hindu fundamentalists at the expense of the Muslim. Sikh and other minorities among India's 850 million people.
Indian news agencies reported that 60 Sikh activists had been arrested when they tried to march through Kashmir in protest against the BJP motorcade today.
Sikh * politician Simranjit Singh Mann was arrested when • he tried to enter Kashmir to hold a rally countering a Hindu nationalist journey, press reports said to-day.
Mann, leader of a faction of the Akalt Da) party in Punjab state, was held with, 56 follow era Friday at Lakhanpur. the gateway to Kashmir, domestic news agencies said.
In Delhi Indian police rounded up 150 people on the eve of the country's republic day as security in the capital was boosted for fear of terrorists attacks, police officials said today.
Police said the 150 detained were suspected of having links with Sikh militants form Punjab or Muslim group! fighting for the secession of the northern state of Kashmir.
Some. 15.000 paramilitary trodps from the Border Security Forces and Central Reserve Police Fon-e and ordl nary police personnel were deployed along the 10-kfio-metre (six mile) route of a pa rade planned for Sunday.
The parade usually Includes displays by dancers and children along with exhibitions of Indian weapons.