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Lal Chowk, Srinagar | Ghanta Ghar Night View | Jammu & Kashmir | लाल चौक | Place to Visit in Kashmir Explore India -    • Explore India   Explore Kashmir -    • Explore Kashmir   Explore Himachal Pradesh -    • Explore Himachal Pradesh   Explore New Delhi -    • Explore New Delhi   Explore Rajasthan -    • Explore Rajasthan   Explore Karnataka -    • Explore Karnataka   Explore Uttrakhand -    • Explore Uttrakhand   Explore Maharashtra -    • Explore Maharashtra   Explore Uttar Pradesh -    • Explore Uttar Pradesh   Explore Jharkhand -    • Explore Jharkhand   Explore Bihar -    • Explore Bihar   Videography - ‪@ExploringAbhishek‬ Editor - ‪@ExploringAbhishek‬ Content Credit - wikipedia.org Music: Do It Musician: @iksonmusic #lalchowk #travel #srinagar #kashmir #placetovisit #clocktower #ghantaghar #nightlife #winter #snowfall #ExploringAbhishek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lal Chowk (lit. 'Red Square') is a city square in Srinagar, in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The square was given its name by left-wing activists who were inspired by the Russian Revolution as they fought the princely state's Maharaja, Hari Singh. It has traditionally served as a place for political meetings, with Jawaharlal Nehru (the first prime ministers of India) and Sheikh Abdullah Jammu and Kashmir, respectively) as well as other prominent political leaders having addressed people from it. The clock tower at Lal Chowk was built in 1980. The Lal Chowk precinct stretches on both the sides of the Residency Road between the Amira Kadal bridge and the Tyndale Biscoe School. It has evolved into Srinagar's main business district from the early twentieth century. Lal Chowk itself is a traffic roundabout towards its eastern end. It houses a clock tower (ganta ghar) constructed by Bajaj Electricals in 1980. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1990s edit In 1990 separatists had dared anyone to try and raise the flag of India at Lal Chowk. The National Security Guards took up the challenge and raised the flag. The clock tower gained political significance in 1992, when the then Bharatiya Janata Party president, Murli Manohar Joshi, hoisted the Indian flag on top of the tower on Republic Day.[5][6] Joshi hoisted the flag in the company of Indian troops. Since then, the Indian Border Security Force and Central Reserve Police Force undertook the hoisting ceremony until 2009, when they announced that continuing the ritual was unnecessary because the tower "had no political significance". Following this, official ceremonies were held at the nearby Bakshi Stadium in Wazir Bagh Srinagar on Republic Day and Independence Day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1993 Lal Chowk fire In 1993, there was an arson attack on the main commercial centre of downtown Srinagar. The fire was alleged to have been started by a crowd incited by separatist militants. The civilians and police officials interviewed by Human Rights Watch and other international organizations alleged that the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) set fire to the locality, apparently in retaliation to the burning of an abandoned BSF building by local residents. Over 125 Kashmiri civilians were killed in the incident. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 29 January 2023 On this day, Rahul Gandhi unfurled national tricolour in Lal Chowk as the party's mass outreach program "Bharat Jodo Yatra" was one day left to end in Srinagar.