Right-wing activists held in Andhra’s Guntur for trying to unfurl Indian flag at Jinnah circle tower | Watch

Members of the Hindu Vahini group tried to unfurl the national flag at Jinnah centre in Andhra’s Guntur district. Police detained them and stopped them before they unfurled the flag.

An ugly scene prevailed at Jinnah Circle in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur when a few right-wing activists wanted to unfurl the Indian flag at the tower on Wednesday, January 26.

Guntur members of the Hindu religious group, Hindu vahini, on the occasion of Republic day, rushed to unfurl the Indian flag at the tower located at the centre of Guntur city.

However, police deployed at the centre detained the members and stopped them from unfurling the National flag.

Earlier, the Andhra Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party BJP had demanded the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) government to rename the Jinnah tower in Guntur.

BJP national secretary Y Satya Kumar, Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh and Andhra Pradesh BJP state unit chief, Somu Veeraraju, had demanded renaming the Jinnah tower with APJ Abdul Kalam’s name.

Andhra Pradesh BJP leader Vishnuvardhan Reddy even threatened the Andhra government to rename the Jinnah tower or party activists would demolish the tower and allot a new name to the centre.

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