"Was Implemented Out Of Fear...": Farooq Abdullah On Article 370

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said on Monday that Article 370 was implemented due to concerns that people from Punjab might migrate to Jammu and Kashmir after partition and settle there.

"We didn't bring Article 370. This was introduced and implemented by Maharaja Hari Singh in 1947. It was only out of fear that the people of Punjab would come here after partition and settle down and the poor people of our state would sell their land at lesser rates," he said while addressing a press conference in Jammu.

Farooq Abdullah said that Maharaja Hari Singh introduced Article 370 to protect the locals of Jammu and Kashmir.