Massive Protests Erupt Over Mehbooba Mufti’s Insult To Indian Tricolour
After PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti announced that she won’t hoist the Indian flag till the Jammu-Kashmir state flag returns, a few men barged into PDP’s Jammu office and forcibly ‘hoisted’ the national flag on Saturday. The men also got into a heated argument with PDP leaders – Firdous Tak and Parvez Waffa Khan.
The Indian flag was later removed by PDP workers. Tak claimed that the mob threatened to burn the office to the ground when they return the next day.
Tak: ‘Mob threatened to burn office’
Tak alleged that the mob was clearly ‘right-wingers as they were wearing saffron’. He added that they tried to reach out to the administration, but nobody responded.
Earlier in the day, J&K National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah was elected president of the People’s Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) and Mufti was elected Vice-president. Moreover, PAGD will hold a convention on November 17 and the symbol of the alliance will be the Flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu-Kashmir, which used to be raised at the civil secretariat in Srinagar.
