J&K Not A Real Estate: Chidambaram Affirms Cong’s Stand On Statehood

TPI Staff June 21, 2021

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Mumbai: Reiterating Congress’ stand on granting statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, party leader P Chidambaram on Monday said J&K isn’t a “piece of real estate.”

“Congress Party’s position, reiterated yesterday, that full Statehood must be restored to J&K should clear any doubt or ambiguity. What was made under the Constitution cannot be unmade by an Act of Parliament misinterpreting and misusing the provisions of the Constitution,” Chidambaram said in the first of his series of tweets on the matter.

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The leader also said that the laws which took away the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir should be repealed in the monsoon session of Parliament. “This is the only way to find a starting point for a political solution to the Kashmir issue,” Chidambaram said.

“J&K was a ‘state’ that signed an Instrument of Accession and acceded to India. It must enjoy that status forever. J&K is not a piece of ‘real estate. J&K is ‘people’. Their rights and wishes must be respected,” the senior Congress leader said in another tweet, adding that “the dismembering of J&K” has been challenged in the Supreme Court and the cases are pending for nearly two years.

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The Congress party on Sunday said the Center should accede to the demand for restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir in the interest of the Constitution and democracy.

His remarks came after invitations were sent to 14 political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, including four former chief ministers, to attend a high-level meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on June 24.

This meeting is expected to prepare a roadmap for holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

This will be the Prime Minister’s first interaction with all political parties of Jammu and Kashmir since August 5, 2019, when the Center abolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated it into two Union Territories.

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