'Abrogation was BJP's voice, not India's': Farooq Abdullah says Kashmiris reduced to prisoners of Delhi

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Srinagar: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) should clarify why the BJPs ideological icon Syama Prasad Mookerjee had at one point supported Article 370 for Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah said...

In an interview to ThePrint, Abdullah also alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in power at the Centre, had turned Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into a prisoner of Delhi...

Polling for the first phase of assembly elections in J&K, where Article 370 of the Constitution granting the region special autonomous status was abrogated in August 2019, began Wednesday amid tight security arrangements..

Abdullah, a former chief minister of J&K, said that if his party won the polls, it would go to the Supreme Court for restoring the statehood as well as the restoration of Article 370...

When it was pointed out that the principal opposition Congress party, which is contesting the J&K elections in alliance with the NC, was keeping mum on the issue of restoration of Article 370, Abdullah said the partys stand was related to its national politics...

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