Advises Farooq Abdullah To Seek Substitute For Article 370<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Srinagar | Congress leader and former union minister Prof Saifudin Soz Monday said that the challenge for J&K leadership was not the restoration of statehood but finding a substitute to the abrogated Article 370 of the constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe crucial question is not the restoration of statehood which the BJP itself wants to happen, but, seeking, at least, a close substitute to the abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution of India,\u201d Soz said in a statement to Kashmir Observer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI rang up Dr. Farooq Abdullah\u201d, Soz said adding I welcome his release and hope that he would realise, in full measure, his role at the present day Kashmir\u2019s \u2018cross road situation\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs the people know, we have fallen to bad times. So, we must close our ranks and realise our joint responsibility for future\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe moot point for mainstream leadership of Kashmir is to ponder over why the Centre put the entire mainstream leadership either in jail or under house arrest since August 5, 2019, when it abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution of India, unilaterally\u201d, Soz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said it was incumbent upon the mainstream leadership, particularly the National Conference, to adopt a mechanism to sort-out issues with the Centre so that \u201cthings don\u2019t go awry in future\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf the constitution of India offers accommodation to the resolution of Kashmir issue, then, the Union should take steps to revive the democratic process in Kashmir. It is only then that the electoral process can be undertaken at some point of time in future\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is the Centre that has to come clean on how the state\u2019s constitutional relationship with the Union can be strengthened as a \u2018Cooperative and Collaborative Effort,\u2019\u201d Soz said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Advises Farooq Abdullah To Seek Substitute For Article 370 Srinagar | Congress leader and former union minister Prof Saifudin Soz Monday said that the challenge for J&K leadership was not the restoration of statehood but finding a substitute to the abrogated Article 370 of the constitution. \u201cThe crucial question is not the restoration of statehood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}