Jammu & Kashmir Congress asks Mehbooba to desist from making ‘provocative’, ‘irresponsible’ remarks on national flag
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Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma stated, “Such statements are intolerable and unacceptable in any society.”
Asking former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to desist from making extremely provocative and irresponsible remarks on the national flag, the Congress unit within the Union Territory on Saturday strongly condemned the PDP chief’s assertion on the tricolour.
Reacting to Mehbooba’s assertion on the national flag, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma stated it’s extremely ‘provocative’ and ‘irresponsible’ and she or he has damage the patriotic sentiments of individuals.
“Such statements are intolerable and unacceptable in any society,” he stated. Mr. Sharma stated the national flag is the image of the honour and dignity of the nation and reminds individuals of the sacrifices of crores of Indians to obtain freedom and defend the nation’s dignity, honour and territorial integrity.
“She should desist from making such outrageous utterances to hurt the sentiments of every Indian,” the Congress chief stated.
In her first media interplay after her launch from 14 months of detention, Mehbooba on Friday stated she would maintain the tricolour solely when the separate flag of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir can be restored.
“As far as I am concerned, I have no interest in elections. Till the time the Constitution under which I used to contest elections is returned to us, Mehbooba Mufti has got nothing to do with elections, let me tell you that,” she stated.
In an act seen as defiance, the flag of the erstwhile State was prominently positioned on a desk in entrance of the PDP president, together with the flag of her get together, throughout the press convention. It was for the primary time that the PDP displayed the flag of the erstwhile State at a celebration operate or a presser.
“This is my flag,” Mehbooba stated, pointing to the flag of the erstwhile State, when a reporter requested her about her assertion that if Article 370 of the Constitution was revoked, there might be nobody left to maintain India’s flag.
“When this flag of ours is restored, we will hold that flag (tricolour) also. But we will not hold any other flag till the time our flag, which was robbed from us, comes into our hold,” she stated.
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