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SRINAGAR, July 27: Dr Farooq Abdullah, has again said if the Constitution of the country has to be respected, Statehood for Jammu and Kashmir should be restored and that the recent Pahalgam terror attack could have been prevented had the local Government been in charge of the security.
Dr Abdullah said that “It’s not a question of being hopeful,” for the restoration of Statehood in the Union Territory but if the Constitution of India is to be respected, States are never converted into UTs. A UT is converted into a State. The tragedy is that they converted a State into a UT. And what did they achieve?”.
Abdullah recalled that “promises” were made when Article 370 was abrogated six years ago on August 5, 2019, that “terrorism would disappear”. Has militancy disappeared? Or has it increased? he said,
He added that Centre should answer this in the parliament. Abdullah said that the people were “expecting” that Statehood for Jammu and Kashmir would be announced soon.
Already, all the opposition parties are fighting for us also in the Parliament & You have seen recently, Congress President Mallikarjun) Kharge and Rahul Gandhi’s letter to the Prime Minister asking that the Statehood must be restored.
Abdullah recalled that the central Government has made promises to us in Parliament and also committed themselves in the Supreme Court but results are known to everyone in the world, which is a question on PM &HM?
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