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| Disgruntled MLA warns party against tinkering with Article 35A | | Hold BJP responsible if terror spreads to Jammu': | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 11: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator said on Saturday that his party was raising the issue of Article 35A with an eye on 2019 Lok Sabha polls, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir will not let it be abrogated.
Gagan Bhagat, the BJP MLA from R S Pura assembly constituency, while snubbing his party for seeking the abrogation of Article 35A, praised the people of the Kashmir Valley for what he called "fighting a battle in support of the Article".
"The BJP government at the Centre is raking up the issue with an eye on 2019 Lok Sabha polls. People of Jammu would be the worst sufferers if the article is revoked. There will be no jobs in Jammu. All the people sitting here will be left jobless," Bhagat said while addressing a public meeting.
"Kashmiris are fighting our battle while the people of Jammu are calling for the abrogation of the Article 35A. We all must raise our voice so that it reaches the court," the MLA said.
Bhagat, suspended from the party on July 28 for alleged immoral activities, minced no words in attacking the BJP government at the Centre for "betraying the people" of Jammu region. "Except promises, nothing has been done for the Jammu region," he said, adding that despite being in power in J&K for nearly three and a half years the party leadership had failed to solve the long-pending demands of the people of this region.
The disciplinary committee of the state BJP on July 26 had recommended suspension of Bhagat from the party for alleged abduction of a woman. On June 24, an ex-serviceman had accused the MLA of abducting his daughter, a charge denied by the woman as well as the politician. |
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