The Indian flag comprises of three colours; Saffron, White and Green. But here the troops let the ‘green’ disappear from the array.Any answer why?
Baba Umar
No country is complete without its sense of loyalty which comes with symbols like the Country’s flag and it is only fearless who bear the flag’s commitment on their sleeves.
But this commitment seemed to be missing in a group of special troopers as well as their wardrobe selectors. On January 26, when the whole of India was celebrating its 59th Republic Day, in Bakshi stadium a section of troops in three main rows were supposed to wear clothes to form a tri-colour, but it all went haywire.
Instead of spotting all the three colours only two colours were visible. There are many who smell a rat in this whole affair. They say troopers donned in saffron and white clothes had deliberately kicked the “green” out of the tri-colour flag.
“Clearly saffron stands for ‘Hinduism’ and green represents ‘Islam’, but they want to make it look something else,” said an elderly person who had come all the way from Islamabad to witness January 26 celebrations in Bakshi Stadium. Bracing snow and chill, he had come early in the winter morning to celebrate the day; however, he said, he was taken aback to see the waywardness of these troopers.
“Does it make any impression of Indian flag when looked from a distance?” he quips, while pointing to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) contingent that stood on the spectators stand forming a bi-colour flag. “Where is the green?” he asked.
When contacted on the issue, Public Relation Officer (PRO) of CRPF, Prabhakar Tripathi said he has no idea who had made the CRPF personnel to dress up in the two colours only.
“The Department of Information and Divisional Commissioner Kashmir has made all the Republic day arrangements,” he said. “May be they had asked the troops to wear in only two colours.”
However, the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Mehboob Iqbal, was busy in a meeting when tried to contact several times and the Director Information, Zafar Bhat, was also not available for his comments.
But this commitment seemed to be missing in a group of special troopers as well as their wardrobe selectors. On January 26, when the whole of India was celebrating its 59th Republic Day, in Bakshi stadium a section of troops in three main rows were supposed to wear clothes to form a tri-colour, but it all went haywire.
Instead of spotting all the three colours only two colours were visible. There are many who smell a rat in this whole affair. They say troopers donned in saffron and white clothes had deliberately kicked the “green” out of the tri-colour flag.“Clearly saffron stands for ‘Hinduism’ and green represents ‘Islam’, but they want to make it look something else,” said an elderly person who had come all the way from Islamabad to witness January 26 celebrations in Bakshi Stadium. Bracing snow and chill, he had come early in the winter morning to celebrate the day; however, he said, he was taken aback to see the waywardness of these troopers.
“Does it make any impression of Indian flag when looked from a distance?” he quips, while pointing to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) contingent that stood on the spectators stand forming a bi-colour flag. “Where is the green?” he asked.
When contacted on the issue, Public Relation Officer (PRO) of CRPF, Prabhakar Tripathi said he has no idea who had made the CRPF personnel to dress up in the two colours only.
“The Department of Information and Divisional Commissioner Kashmir has made all the Republic day arrangements,” he said. “May be they had asked the troops to wear in only two colours.”
However, the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Mehboob Iqbal, was busy in a meeting when tried to contact several times and the Director Information, Zafar Bhat, was also not available for his comments.
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