Like Farmers, "Sacrifices" Needed To Get Back Our Rights: Farooq Abdullah
NDTV
"(The farmers protested for) 11 months, more than 700 farmers died. The Centre had to revoke the three farm bills when farmers made sacrifices. We may also have to make sacrifices like that to get back our rights," Farooq Abdullah said.
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir may have to make "sacrifices", as farmers protesting the new farm laws did, to restore its statehood and special status.
Addressing a convention of the NC's youth wing on the occasion of the 116th birth anniversary of party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah at his mausoleum at Naseembagh, Mr Abdullah, however, said his party does not support violence.
After almost a year of protests by farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on November 19 announced the decision to repeal the farm laws passed last year to ease rules around the sale, pricing and storage of crops.
Parliament passed a bill to repeal the farm laws on the first day of the ongoing Winter Session on November 29.
