Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 24: Shar-ply reacting to Farooq Abdullah’s promise of reclaiming special status of Jammu and Kashmir State granted to it through Article 370 of Indian Constitution, former Minister Ab Gani Vakil has asked both the opposition National Conference and ruling People’s Democratic Party to stop talking about protection of special status of the State as both the parties are responsible for most of the 45 constitutional amendments invoked to erode special status of the State since 1965 till date.
Saying that till yesterday PDP used to beat drums on self rule and ended up with an unholy alliance with BJP just to ink obituary of the fiscal autonomy of the State by applying Article 101 of the Indian Constitution for implementing GST in the State and National Conference is forgetting its humiliating response to the State Assembly’s autonomy resolution and the party President Farooq Abdullah is now talking about reclaiming special status of the State.
Asking Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti that why her party, PDP, is not talking about self rule, joint currency and troop withdrawal now when in power, Vakil also asked National Conference working president and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to explain as to why he did not quit as Minister of State (MoS) from the erstwhile Vajpayee led NDA Government when Autonomy Resolution of the Assembly was rejected by the same Government of which he was a part.
Calling upon all anti-National Conference and anti-PDP forces to come together to expose the nefarious political designs of both, Vakil said formation of a third front under a strong leadership has become the only option for taking the State out of the present crisis for which families of Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ were fully responsible. He said the real freedom of people of Jammu and Kashmir lies in their freedom from the clutches of the families of Abdullahs’ and Muftis’.
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