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| Bhim challenges BJP, NC, Congress leaders for open debate on A-370 | | | early times report
Jammu, June 29: Chief Patron of National Panthers Party and Member of National Integration Council Prof Bhim Singh has thrown challenge to the leaders of BJP, NC and Congress to join him in an open debate from the same platform on the relevance of Article 370 in 2013.
He pointed out that BJP has been exploiting the emotions of the electorates in the name of Article 370 and Ram Mandir with the sole objective to raise their vote bank. "On the other hand Congress and NC have been making the full use of BJP's provoking slogans to add votes to their kitty. This hide and seek game is being played by both sides to create communal hatred only for the sake of electoral gains," he said in a statement.
Prof Singh asked BJP leaders why did they forget about Article 370 when they were in power for six years. He reminded that he had taken up the issue with the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee seeking his intervention for introducing amendment in the temporary provisions of Article 370. "On the other hand Omar Abdullah, the grandson of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, arch rival of BJP who said the other day in the presence of Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh in Banihal that "Article 370 shall be abrogated on his dead body," NPP Supremo reminded Omar what led him to sit in the lap of BJP when Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.
"Did he know that BJP always stood for abrogation of Article 370? It shows, the NPP leaders said, that Omar has understood that the Kashmiris do not accept his leadership and that's why he started talking in the terms of Jamat-e-Islami," he claimed.
Prof Singh reminded the intellectuals and the historians that Article 370 was inserted in the Constitution of India in 1950 when Maharaja Hari Singh was still the king of J&K with a limited sovereign power vis-à-vis the internal affairs.
Prof. Bhim Singh invited any leader of the BJP, NC or the Congress to join in the debate on the subject anywhere in the country from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. He stressed that amendment in Article 370 is essential to extend the fruits of democracy to J&K. |
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