"If Article 370 Was So Bad...": Farooq Abdullah Slams PM Modi's Remarks
NDTV
Farooq Abdullah said, "If Article 370 and nepotism are responsible, then how did we make progress"
Farooq Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, took strong exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks today on Article 370 of the constitution and that it had only helped propagate dynastic rule in the erstwhile state. "If Article 370 was this bad, how did Jammu and Kashmir ever make progress," he questioned.
PM Modi, in his first visit to Srinagar today since the scrapping of Article 370, had called it a "new Jammu and Kashmir" that was the result of the scrapping of the erstwhile state's special status.
"For decades, for political gains, Congress and its allies misled people in the name of Article 370. But today there are equal rights and opportunities for all. The people know the truth... they were misled... This is the new Jammu and Kashmir for which we all were waiting,' he had said.
