Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 26: Former Union Minister Prof. Saifuddin Soz has claimed that with their eyes completely shut on the reality in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP continues to harp that Article 370 hindered vision of `Ek Bharat’, but this narrative is absolutely wrong.
“The one-sided propaganda that the Article 370 hindered the vision of “One Bharat”, continues unabated,” Prof Soz said in a statement here today.
He said all this narrative has deepened the anger of the people of J&K, who feel badly let down as the BJP has gone back on the very basis of forging of J&K State’s Constitutional relationship with the Union of India.
“BJP’s leadership does not care to assess how the State’s Constitutional relationship was established on the specific guarantee to the people of the state that its internal autonomy would be preserved through Article 370 of the Constitution of India. The scrapping of Article 370 unilaterally by the Central Govt is absolutely wrong as the first party to the State’s accession with India; the people of Jammu and Kashmir, were not consulted at all,” Soz asserted.
“This is a one-sided action by the Central Govt and, therefore, the people of J&K will continue their democratic struggle for restoration of the state’s autonomy,” former JKPCC chief claimed.
“Unfortunately, a section of Kashmir mainstream political class is diluting the peoples’ democratic struggle by harping their tune and seeking restoration of statehood for the state,” he regretted.
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