Three leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have resigned citing the “undesirable actions and statements” of Mehbooba Mufti, according to the ANI news agency on Monday. The leaders of the PPD, TS Bajwa, Ved Mahajan and Hussain A Waffa, who resigned from the PPD, wrote to the chairman of the party, Mufti, citing their reasons.
According to ANI, they said in the letter that they “feel quite uncomfortable about some of their undesirable actions and statements, especially those that hurt patriotic sentiments.”
Mufti had said last week that members of his party would not raise the tricolor unless they were allowed to raise the Jammu and Kashmir flag, the right that had been conferred on the former state by the now-defunct Article 370 of the Constitution. .
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The PPD president, who was recently released from detention, said that JK’s relationship with the national tricolor was not independent of the previous state flag. “When this flag reaches our hands, we will also carry that flag (of India).” Mufti had said that the “thieves” had taken the flag from J&K.
It has also joined the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration, a grouping of six political parties in Jammu and Kashmir. The president of the National Conference (NC) Farooq Abdullah has been its president and Mufti his deputy, shaping an alliance they have formed to demand the restoration of the special status of the old state.
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