STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: Narrating several incidents of disrespect shown to the National Flag by BJP yesterday, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP and former Minister, has sought immediate registration of FIR against the delinquents under various laws passed by the Parliament over the subject. He said that BJP’s melodrama over celebrations on August 5, the day of Re-organization of J&K and its demotion to UT, witnessed several ugly incidents with gravest acts of desecration of the National Flag which is the pride of the Nation. He said that the National Flag was thrown on barbed wire in the BJP Headquarter at Jammu which was duly captured in videos by the media persons and widely displayed on social media. Several Flags were thrown on the ground after the said functions. Likewise the BJP leaders were openly seen wiping their faces, ears and noses with the National Flag on social media with none in the administration to take notice. Only last week, the J&K BJP President was seen using the National Flag upside down without bothering about the prescribed protocols. He was addressing public meetings in villages Krowa, Dhandhal, Prowa Jagir and Hartrayan in Jaganoo and Ghordi Blocks. Asserting that insult to National Flag was a punishable offence under law, Singh questioned the Govt whether it would take cognizance of the delinquency of the BJP leaders whose disrespectful conduct had become viral on the social media with people seeking action for the said contemptuous defiance of symbols of National pride.
