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| Article 370 is temporary: Farooq Abdullah | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: It was on December 1, 2013 that BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi suggested that it was time for everyone to debate Article 370 and its consequences, that even Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had said that Article 370 was a temporary provision and that the BJP would give up its demand for abrogation of this Article if its votaries proved that it had benefited the people and the state. Ever since then, all the National Conference leaders, including Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah, and others of their ilk have been criticizing Narendra Modi and asserting that Article 370 is a permanent feature of the Indian Constitution, that it is a bridge between Jammu and Kashmir and New Delhi and that its abrogation would mean de-accession of the state from India.
It appears the Kashmiri leaders and their handful of supporters have not read Article 370 which, they say, grants a special status to the state. Article 370 only suggests a methodology under which the central laws can be introduced. The constituent assembly proceedings nowhere say that it is a permanent provision or it grants a special status to the state. One can excuse Kashmiri leaders for the misinformation campaign they have unleashed to mislead the general public, promote their communal and selfish interests and play dirty and anti-democratic games, but one cannot ignore Farooq Abdullah, who, like Jawaharlal Nehru, had himself said that Article 370 was a temporary provision and it would become redundant in due course.
In 1963, Jawaharlal Nehru had told the Parliament, "Article 370 has been eroded, the process of gradual erosion is going on; we should allow it to go on". At an election rally in Jammu in June 1983, Farooq had said: And in June 1983, Farooq Abdullah had said in Jammu: "The Article 370 is a temporary provision. It is dying its slow death and one day it will die its own death". He had made this important statement while addressing an election rally. The Kashmiri leaders in general and Omar Abdullah and his il-informed advisors in particular must look at what Farooq Abdullah said in Jammu in June 1983 before saying anything about this anti-people Article that has only benefited a handful of vested interests. Similarly, Farooq Abdullah would do well to revisit 1983. |
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