'Omar will insult tricolour if he stops BJP's yatra'

New Delhi,22 jan.The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday decided not to allow the Bharatiya Janata Party to hoist the tricolour in Srinagar on Republic Day. But the BJP is adamant about going ahead with its plans of unfurling the national flag at Srinagar's Lal Chowk to mark the culmination of its 6,000-km Ekta Yatra.

The yatra, spearheaded by the BJP's youth wing, started from Kolkata on January 12. After covering 2,000 kms across seven states, the yatra reached Delhi on Thursday.

At the forefront of the yatra is Anurag Thakur, president of BJP's youth wing and a member of Parliament from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.

The yatra will now travel through Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh before reaching Jammu and Kashmir.