J&K Coalition To Be Led By Farooq Abdullah, Will Use Old State Flag | Read

The flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir's will be used by the coalition of all major regional parties which aim to have its status and powers restored, the bloc announced on Saturday. The group will be led by former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and rival Mehbooba Mufti will be his deputy. The "People's Alliance" is an unprecedented grouping of parties which signed last year's Gupkar Declaration just before the centre struck down Jammu and Kashmir's decades-old special powers listed in Article 370 of the constitution and split it into two union territories.