Restoration of statehood issue to be taken in INDIA bloc meeting today: Farooq
19/07/2025
SRINAGAR, Jul 18: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah today said that the restoration of statehood issue will be taken up in the Opposition INDIA bloc meeting that is scheduled to be held tomorrow.
Abdullah congratulated Congress President Malikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for restoration of Statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
"I welcome Kharge sahib and Rahul Gandhi ji who raised the issue with the Prime Minister. …On the evening of July 19, all leaders will be meeting, and this issue will be raised again," Abdullah told reporters.
He said statehood is the right of people of Jammu and Kashmir.
"If they (BJP) don't give it, we will see accordingly," the veteran politician said.
A fresh wave of optimism has erupted among the politicians in Kashmir after two senior Congress leaders, Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, urged the Prime Minister to bring legislation in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament to restore statehood to the Union Territory. The Monsoon Session of Parliament is beginning on July 21.
Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status and downgraded to a Union Territory on August 5, 2019, following the abrogation of Article 370. Since then, political parties have consistently been demanding restoration of statehood.
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