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Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: Notwithstanding repeated statements of party leaders, the Congress leadership is hesitating to take up the issue of restoring article 370 in J&K in the Parliament.
In the ongoing budget session of the Parliament, Congress has asked the government to bring a Bill to restore full statehood to J&K as promised earlier by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Home Minister, Amit Shah.
Reliable sources said that some Kashmir based party leaders were mounting pressure on the high-command to raise the demand of restoring Article 370 and Article 35-A but the central leadership could not muster courage to support this demand.
Congress high command has realized that demanding restoration of Article 370 would be proved counterproductive in other parts of the country so it’s better to reconcile with the fact that this Article would not be brought back in the erstwhile state of J&K.
Congress leadership had faced criticism for entering into seat adjustment with the Gupkar Alliance so the party was moving cautiously on this highly sensitive issue.
On Saturday during an all party meeting, Congress asked the government to bring a Bill in the ongoing budget session of the Parliament to restore full statehood to J&K.
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Centre must now bring a Bill and restore the statehood, which was unfairly taken away on August 5, 2019.
“The district development council elections are over. There is now no excuse to further delay this critical agenda. People of J&K were most unfairly treated when the state was converted into a UT. Now J&K's statehood must be restored immediately”, Azad demanded.
In the Budget session, the government will bring an Act replacing the JK Reorganisation Amendment Ordinance, 2021, in which the Jammu and Kashmir cadre of IAS, IFS and Indian Forest Services was merged with the AGMUT (Arunachal, Mizoram, Goa and UT) cadre. |
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