Alleging that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was using National flag to whip up sentiments of people for votes, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the saffron party leaders themselves show disrespect to it (flag).
Media advisor to Mehbooba Mufti, president of the PDP, Syed Suhail Bukhari taking to micro blogging site Twitter on Monday said “Bhartiya Polarization Party @BJP4India would lecture people on the respect to Tricolor, invent imaginary cases of disrespect to the flag to whip sentiments for votes & themselves do this. Shame!”
Bukhari was reacting a video viral on social media showing a person, reportedly district president BJP Pulwama cleaning his shoe with National flag.
He also re-tweeted the video with the tweet which reads “JammuKashmir District president BJP Pulwama exposed @BJP4India leaders Nationalism As usual no one CONDEMNED from @BJP4JnK Exemplary punishment expected from PM @narendramodi ji”.
Another senior leader of People’s Democratic party said that the Bhartiya Janta party said that BJP is exploiting the sentiments of public and deviating them from real issues. “They have no performance, they are using the National flag issues to deviate people from the issues that matter.”