Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Meeting with distinguished political leaders This week senior Congress chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad stated on Monday that restoration of “full statehood” could be “top of the agenda”.
However, Azad, who has been invited for the June 24 assembly, was not dedicated as to if he would search restoration of particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir. The assembly is the primary such train by the central authorities after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories in August 2019.
“Sabse unchi demand statehood ki hogi (State status will be the top demand). This will be at the top of the agenda. And this was promised on the floor of the House as well. Full statehood…not that of the Lt Governor,” Azad stated. Indian Express.
When requested about Article 370, the Congress chief stated that he’s in talks with get together leaders from each Jammu and Kashmir, and it’s too early to touch upon it.
“I’m consulting Congress leaders from each Jammu and Kashmir. After that, I’ll search steerage from the management of my get together – Congress President and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh – and allies who have been straight or not directly concerned… so it’s too early to say. Yes, I can say that full statehood can be on the high of the agenda. “We will formulate our stand … policy … after consultation and deliberation.”
Sources stated the Jammu and Kashmir Policy Planning Group of the Congress will meet on Tuesday to finalize the get together’s stand for the assembly. Apart from Azad, the panel consists of Manmohan Singh, Karan Singh, P Chidambaram, AICC in-charge Rajni Patil, Tariq Hamid Karra and Ghulam Ahmed Mir.
Azad counseled the federal government for taking such a step, “especially when the meeting is physical”. “We will have the opportunity to discuss freely,” he stated. Apart from Azad, the opposite Congress chief is believed to have been invited for the assembly to the get together’s Jammu and Kashmir chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir.
Azad, the previous Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha, was closely crucial of the central authorities for scrapping Article 370. His newest remarks, nonetheless, mirror the official view of the Congress – regardless of differing opinions – which locations extra emphasis on restoration of statehood and the resumption of the democratic course of than on Article 370.
On Sunday, the get together reiterated its place with its communications division chief Randeep Surjewala citing the Congress Working Committee (CWC) decision dated August 6, 2019, demanding restoration of full statehood.
While the decision attacked the BJP authorities on the way in which to abrogate Article 370 and downgrade Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcate it into two union territories, it shrugged off the demand for reinstatement of Article 370.
Arguing that Article 370 is a constitutional recognition of the phrases of the Instrument of Accession between the State of Jammu and Kashmir and India, the CWC had merely held that it deserves to be honored as long as it’s, after session with all sections, It just isn’t modified. with the structure.
On the stripping of the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, the decision said that “Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India as a State and no government shall have the right to change its status or to divide it or to transfer any part of it to the Centre.” The territory doesn’t have the facility to scale back.”
Azad’s newest remarks got here on a day former Union minister and CWC member Chidambaram had sought restoration of established order in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The position of the Congress party, reiterated yesterday, that full statehood to Jammu and Kashmir should be restored, removes any doubt or ambiguity. What was made under the Constitution cannot be made by an Act of Parliament by misinterpreting and misusing the provisions of the Constitution. Please remember that the bifurcation of J&K has been challenged in the Supreme Court and the cases are pending for almost 2 years. In the monsoon session, Parliament should repeal the objectionable laws and restore the status quo in J&K. This is the only way to draw the starting line for a political solution to the Kashmir issue,” he tweeted.
He stated that Jammu and Kashmir was a ‘state’ which signed a doc of merger and joined India, and it ought to get pleasure from that standing endlessly. “J&K is not a piece of ‘real estate’. J&K is the ‘people’. Their rights and wishes should be respected,” he stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
