Union Minister Prahlad Patel on Friday identified that the nationwide flag displayed behind Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal throughout his press convention on COVID-19 was not in accordance with the principles and criticised Kejriwal for disrespecting the nationwide flag. The union minister stated the inexperienced stripes of flags displayed behind Kejriwal had been enlarged, which was in opposition to the dignity and Constitutional kind of the flag.
Patel appealed to the Delhi chief minister to take care of the decorum and in addition wrote to the Centre and Lieutenant Governor to hunt quick correction.
“Whenever Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses a televised briefing, my consideration is usually drawn to the nationwide flag behind his chair… it’s in violation of the Constitution. The nationwide flag has been used for the aim of ornament,” the Culture and Tourism Minister said in his letter to LG Anil Baijal.
Highlighting the distortion, Patel said, “The middle (the white stripe) seems to get cut by the green stripe. This is not in accordance with Home Ministry rules on depiction of the national flag. I want to bring this to the attention of the respected Chief Minister, who has ignored this – either consciously or subconsciously.”
Patel additionally sought to attract the chief minister’s consideration in the direction of part 2(ix) of The Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, which states that the flag shouldn’t be used to embellish a speaker’s stage.
Section 2.2(1) states that the standing of the flag must be respectful, he added. “Being a resident of India and holding the put up of the proud chief minister of a state, everybody expects you to take care of the honour and the dignity of the Tricolour, an emblem of nationwide delight,” Patel wrote in the letter.
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