National Conference fooling people with promise of restoring Article 370: Sajad Lone
The party would be unable to reinstate the Union Territory’s special status without a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha, the People’s Conference chief said.
Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference chief Sajad Lone has accused the Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference party of “fooling” the Union Territory’s residents with its claim of restoring Article 370, PTI reported on Saturday.
Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was abrogated by the Centre on August 5, 2019.
“They [National Conference] are not explaining how they will be able to get that identity [special status] back if the people of Kashmir will give the mandate of three seats to them,” Lone said in an interview to PTI. “To make any big changes in the Lok Sabha, you need a two-thirds majority.”
The National Conference is a member of the INDIA bloc, a coalition of Opposition parties that is taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance in the Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier this month, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said that his party would contest from three of six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir – Anantnag-Rajouri, Srinagar and Baramulla – according to its seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress.
On Saturday, Lone asked whether the INDIA bloc had “made it clear that they will restore the identity if they get a two-thirds majority [or] that they will restore [Articles]...
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