Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 14: Former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader Prof Saifuddin Soz has said that restoration of Statehood was not the main demand of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The Jalsaz Group of J&K politicians has now come into the open by suggesting restoration of the Statehood as the main demand of the people. This is, however, not the main demand,” Prof Soz said in a statement here today.
“Kashmiris have already rejected this kind of narrow interpretation of their main demand and made it clear that the ordinance issued by the Govt of India on August 5, 2019, whereby the reorganization of the J&K State had been envisaged, was illegal and unconstitutional. That order will never ever be acceptable to the general run of Kashmiris,” he added.
“It is why some people have gone to the Supreme Court in appeal against the Central Govt’s Ordinance issued on August 5, 2019. The people are also thinking that they would ultimately go to the ‘people’s court’, in a big way, if that becomes necessary,” Soz said.
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