Will Wait For "Liberal" Government To Restore Special Status: J&K Leader

The Centre on August 5, 2019, abrogated Article 370, stripping all special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and bifurcated it into Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

People's Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone said he does not expect the BJP-led government in the Centre to restore Jammu and Kashmir's special status. We should not allow the issues of Article 370 and 35 A to be an impediment in delivering other things which are more achievable in the short term like full statehood. "I wouldn't expect them to give it back. But that doesn't stop us from going to the courts, which we have, or waiting for a liberal government at a future date to give it back," the People's Conference tweeted Mr Lone's remarks on its official handle today. The Centre on August 5, 2019, had abrogated Article 370, which gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated it into Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. "Abrogating Article 370 was an ideological plank of this government for 70 years," Sajad Gani Lone said.