Srinagar: Stating that their ‘patriotic sentiments’ were hurt by People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s remarks, three PDP leaders have resigned from the party.
T S Bajwa, Ved Mahajan and Hussain A Waffa have sent their resignation letters to the PDP chief in which they said they were feeling quite uncomfortable over some of her actions and undesirable utterances especially which hurt patriotic sentiments.
Mufti, who was released recently after 14 months in detention, had said on Friday that she was not interested in contesting elections or holding the tricolour, the national flag, till the constitutional changes enforced on 5 August last year were rolled back.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded the arrest of Mufti for her ‘seditious comments’, wherein she said she would only hold the tricolour when the flag of the erstwhile State is restored.
The J&K unit of the BJP said no power on earth can either hoist the State flag again or restore Article 370 of the Constitution, which granted a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.