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Chamal Lal criticizes Cong on Art 370 4/8/2014 10:27:55 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 8: Former Union Minister and MLA, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has decried the opposition by the Congress and its likes to the suggestion for abrogation of Article 370 granting separate status to Jammu and Kashmir. This Article, he said, is against the national interests and unity of the country as having its roots to the sad communal partition of the country in 1947 by the British imperialists. It is unfortunate that the Congress has not learnt any lesson from the past and is pampering communally infected separatism but for ill designed vote bank politics. Prof. Gupta, who is an author of a book- "Article 370 a thorn" said this obnoxious provision is still being retained even after 60 years in the Constitution despite the then Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru had assured the nationalist leaders including Moulana Mohani and others that it was a temporary measure and would wither away with the passage of time. But it was strange that scions of Nehru legacy are pleading for retention of this highly controversial measure. Prof. Gupta challenged the protagonists of this provision to have an open debate on its merits and demerits instead of raising communal passions. This provision, he said, has caused more harm than any good to the people even that of this State. In this regard, he pointed out that democratic rights have been jeopardized and the development has been badly affected to the extent that the dependence is mounting at the Centre and several evils have come up including the corruption, unemployment, little industrial development leading to the unemployment and many other problems.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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