The Central Reserve Police Force on Sunday took out a bike rally in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar from the iconic Ghanta Ghar in Lal Chowk to Nishat garden on the banks of the Dal Lake as part of the Independence Day celebrations. The bike rally, with over 100 bikers carrying the tricolour was flagged off from Lal Chowk by Additional Director General of CRPF Nalin Prabhat, reported PTI. The rally passed through Residency Road, TRC Crossing, Gupkar Road on the way to Boulevard Road before culminating at Nishat, on the banks of the Dal Lake, as per the report. 


Talking to the reporters at the event, Prabhat attributed cooperation of people and their desire to lead a peaceful life as the reason for the change in situation in Kashmir. 






"The atmosphere today is due to the wishes of the people for peace. They want progress, not strikes or stone pelting. Whatever is being done by security forces and the government will not bear much fruit without active cooperation of the people," he said, the report stated. 


He also said that those investing in Kashmir are investing in peace. 


"This is new Kashmir, the changing Kashmir. The new generation of Kashmir is doing what children across the world are doing. These kids are our future. When they grow up, they won't be carrying the baggage that the previous generations had," he said.




Addressing a question, Prabhat said some elements would raise Pakistani flags in Kashmir in the past.


"The communal and pro-Pakistan elements have been given a strong reply. They have been told that there is no place for such people. If there were such flags waved in the past, it did not mean that people of J-K were raising those flags. It was just a few people who were playing into the hands of Pakistan. Some were foolish while others were doing it willingly," he added.


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The ADG CRPF said that incidents of stone pelting in the valley have relegated to bad dreams and that people do not want to see it again, adding, terrorism is at “last stages”. 


Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Toiba, PAFF and TRF are all Pakistan-sponsored, they are living on borrowed time and their end is definite. As we go on finishing them off, the peace here will be strengthened," he said.