Srinagar: The state unit of BJP on Tuesday said that National Conference’s demand of autonomy will lead to the disintegration of the state.
NC President Farooq Abdullah on Sunday while addressing party workers at Balakote in Poonch had reiterated party’s demand for restoration of greater autonomy to the state.
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The greater autonomy, as ensured under Article 370 of the Constitution, has sown the seeds of disintegration of the state. The emphasis on the demand shall lead to the disintegration and there is nothing communal in it, BJP state spokesperson Virender Gupta said in a statement.
He said the clock cannot be reversed back.
“The demand is only a political gimmick of the National Conference and even in the valley people do not take the demand seriously in the prevailing situation, he said.
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Gupta also criticised Abdullah’s statement on conversion of the Line of Control into the line of peace, saying it amounts to undermining the integrity of the state and that of Indian nation.
“It is also against the will of the people of India which was expressed in the unanimous resolution of Parliament in 1994 of taking back Pakistan occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir,”Gupta said in a statement.
