Will hold tricolour and J&K flag collectively: Mehbooba

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on November 9 asserted that she is going to hold the tricolour and the flag of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir collectively, saying as an MLA she had reaffirmed her religion within the J&K Constitution and the sovereignty and integrity of India as each are inseparable.

The former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister had final month stated that she was not enthusiastic about contesting elections or holding the nationwide flag until the constitutional modifications enforced on August 5 final 12 months had been rolled again, sparking protests in Jammu.

“We are the people, especially in the Kashmir Valley, who upheld the tricolour high over the years at the cost of thousands of our workers who were martyred,” Ms. Mufti advised reporters in Srinagar on the finish of her five-day go to to Jammu — her first after launch from over one-year-long detention beneath the Pubic Safety Act (PSA).

Launching a scathing assault on the BJP, apart from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with out naming it, she stated, “Those moving with half pants and where their leader sits do not hoist the tricolour [at their headquarters] and they are giving us lessons on the national flag.”

She stated her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed picked up the nationwide flag after they had been being dismissed as ‘insects of filthy drain’ and subjected to social boycott.

“We, including the BJP members, have taken an oath [in the Assembly and council] that we will affirm our faith in the Constitution of J&K and will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India. First, it was the J&K Constitution and then the sovereignty and integrity of the country. How is it, they cut one finger and leave the other, it is not right,” she stated.

Asked whether or not she is going to hold the tricolour, Ms. Mufti stated, “I had already replied that. I have taken an oath of the J&K Constitution when I became the MLA for the first time and I affirm my faith to the Constitution of J&K and uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India – both of which are interlinked. J&K flag and Indian flag, I will hold both these flags together.”

She accused the BJP of “breaking the relations” of Jammu and Kashmir with the nation by its final 12 months’s choice of abrogating the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir beneath Article 370 and bifurcating it into union territories.

“I am saying give us our flag and the Constitution back the merchandise you have looted in the daylight after conspiring under the darkness of the night have to be returned with interest,” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president stated.

She stated the individuals in Nagaland had lately stated they don’t settle for the flag of this nation and the Constitution, why these “half pants” didn’t take out protest marches towards them.

“When I said we will raise both the flags, they came out with protests and burnt my effigies but when the people in Nagaland are saying, there is no murmur and discussion on the television,” Ms. Mufti stated.