Excelsior Correspondent
KANYAKUMARI (TN), Oct 27: Chief patron of National Panthers Party (NPP) Prof Bhim Singh today demanded that there should be one national flag from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
While hoisting National Flag on the shore of the Indian Ocean, at Kanyakumari today, where the tall statue of Swami Vivekananda is installed, the NPP supremo pleaded for just one national flag for the whole country including Jammu and Kashmir. The activists of Tamilnadu Panthers Party led by its president, Naresh Ambedkar (Advocate) and secretary, AJ Rajan today held a rally at Kanyakumari and resolved to launch movement of ‘ ultimate revolution’ to spread message of unity, integration, fraternity, brotherhood, tolerance and peace from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
“A resolution moved by Prof Bhim Singh that ‘India is one from Kanyakumari to Kashmir’ and urged the Parliament of India to amend Article 370 without delay to merge (integrate) J&K into the Union of India so that National Flag shall hoist from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and there shall be one Constitution in one India and the fundamental rights guaranteed in Chapter-III in the Indian Constitution shall extend to J&K, so that the Parliament of India shall be empowered to legislate in respect of State of J&K which was acceded to the Union of India on October 27, 1947, 70 years back.”
Panthers Party also passed a resolution with a prayer for the speedy recovery of J. Jayalalitha, Chief Minister of Tamilnadu who has been under treatment in Apollo Hospital, Chennai for several weeks.
Prominent among those who addressed at Kanyakumari National Integration rally included Nasreen Hamid, Naresh Ambedkar (state president), Carmeham (general secretary), Srinavasan, Sundra Krishnan, K. Panraj, C.Thankaraj and others.
The Panthers Party declared that it shall start march from Kanyakumari to Parliament in support of demand to amend Article 370 so that India goes one from Kashmir to Kanyakumari with one flag and one constitution.