Jammu & Kashmir’s Statehood should be restored before holding Assembly elections: Ghulam Nabi Azad

Further, the senior Congress leader said Kashmiri Pandits who left the Kashmir Valley in early 1990s in the wake of eruption of militancy be brought back.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday called for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s Statehood before Assembly elections are held and batted for land and job rights for its residents. Speaking to reporters outside the Kheer Bhawani temple complex in Tullamulla area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, Mr. Azad said Kashmiri Pandits who left the Valley in early 1990s in the wake of eruption of militancy be brought back.