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AAP leader Soni Sori unfurls Tricolour in Naxal hotbed Gompad

Raipur, Aug 16 (UNI) Protesting against police atrocities in Chhattisgarh, tribal activist and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Soni Sori -- who led a 185-km ‘Tiranga Padyatra’ from Dantewada on the World Tribal Day on August 9 -- unfurled the Tricolour at Gompad village in worst Naxal-affected Sukma district yesterday despite the Naxal threat.
This was the first time that the Tricolour was hoisted by a political party in a Naxal-infested Gompad village where 16 ultras were reportedly killed in an encounter with security personnel in 2009. Ms Sori had decided to culminate her Tiranga Yatra at Gompad protesting against alleged rape and murder of tribal woman Madkam Hidme in a fake encounter last month.
Police and para-military forces were deployed all along the route to avoid any untoward incident as Naxals had reportedly warned her not to unfurl the national flag on the Independence Day.
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