"Strange": Farooq Abdullah On Amit Shah's J&K Statehood Comment
NDTV
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Jammu and Kashmir's statehood would be restored after assembly elections.
National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Sunday expressed surprise over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that Jammu and Kashmir's statehood would be restored after assembly elections.
He said "urges and aspirations of people have to be satiated for lasting peace" in the Union territory.
Mr Abdullah expressed surprise over the logic being advanced by the central leadership that the statehood will be restored after completion of the delimitation of constituencies and holding of elections.
"It is strange," he said and recalled the all-party meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi a few months ago in which he took up these issues.