Jammu and Kashmir BJP demands Mehbooba Mufti’s arrest for seditious remarks

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday accused former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti of making “seditious” remarks at her first press conference since being released from detention earlier this month, PTI reported. The party said that she should be “put behind bars”.

Mufti had said at the press conference on Friday that her party would bring back the state flag and not abandon the battle for special status for Jammu and Kashmir. “My flag is this,” Mufti remarked, pointing to the Jammu and Kashmir flag. “When this flag comes back, we’ll raise that flag [Indian tricolour] too.”

She had added: “Until we get our own flag back, we won’t raise any other flag...This flag forged our relationship with that flag.”