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Accusing television channel Sony Max of
showing disrespect to the national flag during the India-New zealand
world cup tie yesterday, the Shiv Sena today urged the centre to
initiate legal proceedings against the channel. Delhi Shiv Sena president Abhimanyu Gulati said after India's
victory over the Kiwis yesterday, Sony Max displayed the tricolour
upside down on its studio desk in the extra innings programme on
the world cup. This was done in the presence of former cricket players Kapil
Dev, Arun Lal, Venkatesh Prasad, actress Mandira Bedi and anchor
Charu Sharma, it said. While the Indian cricketers are keeping the tricolour aloft on a
foreign land, the national flag is being insulted in our own
country, Mr Gulati said in a statement. If disrespect is shown to the tricolour by even the elite, the
government must rethink on its decision to permit the common people
to hoist the flag, he added.
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