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3 senior PDP leaders resign over party chief Mehbooba Mufti’s national flag remarks

Senior leaders T S Bajwa, Hassan Ali Waffa and Bed Mahajan were unhappy with Mehbooba's statement about not holding the tricolour till J&K's special status is restored.

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Srinagar: Three PDP leaders from the Jammu region resigned from the party following a statement by its president Mehbooba Mufti regarding the national flag, PDP sources said here on Monday.

Senior leaders T S Bajwa, Hassan Ali Waffa and Bed Mahajan have resigned from the PDP, they said.

The trio was unhappy with Mehbooba’s statement about not holding the tricolour till Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, including its separate state flag, is restored, the sources said.

BJP leaders have hit out at Mehbooba for her remarks, saying seditious statements will not be tolerated.

Mehbooba on Friday had said she was not interested in contesting elections or holding the tricolour till the constitutional changes enforced on August 5 last year were rolled back.

The PDP leader and former chief minister had also said that she would hold the tricolour only when the separate flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was restored.

The Centre on August 5 last year had abrogated the erstwhile state’s special status and bifurcated it into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.


Also read: BJP demands arrest of Mehbooba Mufti for ‘seditious remarks’ on tricolour


 

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Family fiefdom, there are many such families who want to have their part of the franchise that is India, be it Sonia aka Italian origin Gandhi family to Karunanidhi family down south. Each one wanting to rule their own sphere and discourage any attempt to see India as one entity.

  2. Mebooba and Mufti will play all cards to maintain their rule by keeping Kashmir boiling! That has been their strategy throughout. They do not want any other competition and fair opportunity.

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