BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had unfurled the national flag on January 26, 1991 at the same place where separatists used to hoist Pakistani flags since the onset of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989.

However, since '92 security forces were holding the R-Day function at Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of Jammu and Kashmir summer capital.

BJP leader R P Singh, in charge of Jammu and Kashmir affairs, hoisted the national flag at Lal Chowk in the presence of nearly 200 supporters including party's Kashmir unit President Sofi Mohammad Yousuf.