“Article 35A And Article 370 Should Not Be Removed,” Former JK Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah
Mumbai: Article 370 and Article 35A is important says former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah said, “It forms our foundation. There is no need to remove it. We are Hindustani but they (Article 35A & Article 370) are important for us.”
“Article 35A & Article 370 should not be removed,” Abdullah told ANI.
Earlier, Union Minister Jitendra Singh accused the Congress and NC of fooling the Kashmiris in the name of Article 370, saying that these parties used antibiotics of “special status” for political gains when central law did not suit them.
“Congress and the NC fooling the people of Kashmir in the name of Article 370 and ‘special status’. These parties used the alibi of Article 370 when a central law did not suit them, but conveniently forgot it and promptly adopted a central law if it fetched them political gains,” he said.
Singh said that these parties have accused the BJP of abolishing Article 370, but the fact is that for almost half a century after independence, these two parties ruled over the state and all the provisions of the Indian Constitution were given to Jammu and Kashmir was extended up to His regime.
Meanwhile, People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday sought help from her rival party National Conference’s patriarch Farooq Abdullah to present a united front against the Centre’s rumored plans to end Article 35A, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
“In light of recent developments that have caused a sense of panic amongst people in J&K, I’ve requested Dr. Farooq Abdullah Sahab to convene an all-party meeting. The need of the hour is to come together & forge a united response. We the people of Kashmir need to stand up as one,” Mehbooba Mufti said in a tweet.
https://twitter.com/MehboobaMufti/status/1155776375346741249?s=19
“There is confusion in the Valley as one lakh troops are being pumped into Kashmir. We are going through a peaceful period, why instill fear?” Farooq Abdullah said on Monday.
The former Union minister added, “If they abrogate article 35A, they will have to abrogate every article of Indian Constitution. They will have to go back to 1947.”
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