Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 27: The Union Government on Wednesday said that statehood to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir would be granted at an "appropriate time".
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai admitted in the Rajya Sabha that the Minister of Home Affairs had stated in Parliament that the statehood to the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir would be restored.
In a written reply to a question of CPI (M) member Elamaram Kareem, the MoS Home said that decision to grant statehood to J&K would be taken at an appropriate time.
After the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two UTs of J&K and Ladakh.
The top leadership of the BJP has repeatedly promised to restore statehood to J&K at an appropriate time.
During his visit to Jammu and Kashmir in October 2021 the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah had reiterated that the assembly elections will be held in the union territory after delimitation and restoration of statehood will follow.
Shah said he has made a promise in Parliament that the statehood of J&K would be restored and it would be done after the assembly elections.
"The youth of Kashmir will get opportunities, so a right delimitation will be done, which will be followed assembly elections, and then the status of the statehood will be restored. I have said this in the country's Parliament and this is the roadmap," he had stated in October 2021. |
