Jammu And Kashmir - 2

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Staff Reporter

Jammu: The debate on autonomy and Article 370 has been revived in Jammu and Kashmir with the National Conference and the Bharatiya Janata Party taking opposite stands on the issue. National Conference’s chief ministerial candidate for the coming Assembly election, Farooq Abdullah, has emphasised that autonomy is the only way to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir issue.
‘Most feasible’

Dr. Abdullah had said at a public rally: “The roadmap prepared by the National Conference for resolution of the Kashmir imbroglio is the most feasible and perfect in all respects. The entire world is now considering autonomy as the only viable and sustainable solution for the Kashmir issue.”

He maintained that those opposing the resolution had now realised that there could be no other possible solution to the decades-old issue.

“The Government of India has to accept our demand and give the people what is best for them,” he said.

As per the autonomy document, the State should have its own Supreme Court, Election Commission and the nomenclature of the post of Chief Minister should be changed to Prime Minister. Instead of the Governor, the nomenclature ‘Sadr-i-riyasat’ should be used and the person be elected by the Assembly.