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| ‘Let J&K go to hell’: Farooq after SC’s verdict on Art 370 | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 12: Known for maintaining his calm even during crucial times, former Chief Minister and president of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Dr. Farooq Abdullah lost his patience when a reporter asked him about the verdict of the Supreme Court on Article 370.
The reported sought the reaction of Farooq Abdullah when he was coming out of the Parliament.
“Let Jammu and Kashmir go to hell. They (the Centre) betrayed people. They want to win people’s hearts. How’d you win that if you’d do such things to push people farther away?”, enraged senior Abdullah reacted.
Farooq Abdullah strongly defended first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru for his policies on Kashmir. He said that it was all due to the efforts of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru that the erstwhile state of J&K acceded to the Indian Union in 1947.
He argued that the first Union Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and and founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh Shyama Prasad Mukherjee were involved in the process of according special constitutional privileges to the erstwhile state.
“I don’t know why BJP people have so much venom against Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru”, he asked.
Not only Dr. Farooq Abdullah, but leaders of most of the Kashmir-centric parties have also reacted strongly against the verdict of the Apex Court.
Earlier National Conference Vice-President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said he is disappointed but not disheartened by the Supreme Court verdict. “It took the BJP decades to abrogate the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution. We are also prepared for the long haul,” he said while streaming live on ‘X’.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said that the Supreme Court verdict was nothing less than a death sentence and marked the defeat of the idea of India with which the Muslim-majority State had acceded in 1947.
“This is the defeat of the imagination of India, the Gandhian India with which Muslims of J&K rejecting Pakistan, joined hands with the Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Christians, the country of Gandhi. Today marks the defeat of that idea of India,” she said in a video message on X, urging the people of J&K and Ladakh not to be disheartened or lose hope over the apex court decision. |
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