Former chief minister of illegally occupied Indian Jammu and KashmirMehbooba Mufti launched scathing attacks at the Indian government in apress conference, refusing to raise the Indian flag until the occupiedKashmir flag “comes back”.
“The people of J&K are expendable to them (Centre), what they want isterritory. This country will run on the constitution, not on the BJP’smanifesto,” Mufti said on Friday, reported *Indian Express*link.
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Mufti, noting that the BJP-led government had “desecrated” the Indianconstitution, said that she would struggle for the restoration of Article370 and bring a final solution to the Kashmir issue.
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“My flag is this (pointing to the J&K flag on the table). When this flagcomes back, we’ll raise that flag (Tricolour) too. Until we get our ownflag back, we won’t raise any other flag…This flag forged our relationshipwith that flag,” the former IoJ&K chief minister said.
“Our relationship with the flag of this country is not independent of thisflag (Jammu and Kashmir’s flag). When this flag comes in our hand, we willraise that flag too,” Mufti said.