No mourning of JK flag’s death on its birth anniversary

Pulled down almost over ten months ago from the highly fortified Srinagar secretariat the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir flag had no mourners on it’s 68th birth anniversary this week on June 7 and ironically even Abdullahs spearheading the oldest main party National Conference and the owners of this historical flag had not time to mourn its death on it’s birth anniversary. Though Abdullahs’ and other mainstream leaders were under detention on August 25 last year when the flag was pulled down from the Srinagar secretariat building in the evening hours, but they did not mourn it’s death even after their release from several months of detention two months ago and they did not do so even on its birth anniversary last week on June 7. A top mainstream leader having the distinction of being the point man of the erstwhile PDP-BJP alliance and architect of the much hyped PDP-BJP’s agenda of alliance (AoA) though wrote much about the birth and death of erstwhile state flag on the opinion page of a local newspaper but he did not bother to speak about the assurances given to him over the protection of Article 370, Article 35 A and the erstwhile State Flag by the BJP top brass particularly the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah (then BJP’s National President). People of Jammu & Kashmir reserve the right to seek explanations from this mainstream leader that what went wrong with the PDP’s alliance with BJP and the agenda of alliance (AoA) as he was the point man of PDP-BJP alliance and the architect of the much hyped agenda of alliance (AoA).
An interesting feature of the life history of erstwhile J&K flag is that it’s owners celebrated it’s birth but did not mourn it’s death even on it’s first birth anniversary after the death. Ironically Omar Abdullah, one of the owners of the erstwhile state flag was in Delhi on it’s first birth anniversary after the death when he should have been in Srinagar to mourn the death of this flag keeping in view his party’s legal challenge to all the decisions announced the incumbent central government on August 5 and implemented on October 30 last year.
Interestingly the above quoted leader was not under detention like other mainstream leaders the day when the flag was pulled down from the secretariat building in Srinagar in August last year but he surprisingly did not bother to issue even a simple statement over the unceremonious pulling down of the flag even before October 30 the schedule date for its removal by the J&K Government as the August 5 decisions of the central government. People of Jammu & Kashmir would like the above quoted leader to also reveal that whether his sacking from the PDP-BJP coalition ministry by former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was the beginning of the end of PDP’s alliance with BJP in Jammu & Kashmir and henceforth the beginning of the withdrawal of J&K’s special status, bifurcation of erstwhile state into two union territories and pulling down of the erstwhile state flag or not. Political morality also demands that the above quoted leader reveals it to the people of Jammu & Kashmir that whether the BJP top brass or Mehbooba Mufti was responsible for the PDP-BJP break up and whether JK’s special status or any other issued was the cause of PDP-BJP break up. Not only Abdullahs’ but almost all the mainstream parties including the national parties like Congress and CPI(M) were the owners of the erstwhile J&K Flag and henceforth all have to offer their explanations for their inability to mourn the death of this flag on it’s birth anniversary. An interesting feature of the life history of erstwhile J&K flag is that it’s owners celebrated it’s birth but did not mourn it’s death even on it’s first birth anniversary after the death. Ironically Omar Abdullah, one of the owners of the erstwhile state flag was in Delhi on it’s first birth anniversary after the death when he should have been in Srinagar to mourn the death of this flag keeping in view his party’s legal challenge to all the decisions announced the incumbent central government on August 5 and implemented on October 30 last year .