Mallikarjun Kharge salvo at Amit Shah over Article 370 ‘strikes’ Congress-NC ties | India News – Times of India

SRINAGAR: AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge’s shots at the BJP brass for “raking” Article 370 on Friday backfired on his party’s alliance with National Conference (NC) in J&K, with Srinagar MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi saying that “no INC president or JKPCC president has the right to misinterpret the resolution passed by the assembly to restore the special status of the region.
“This resolution calls for the return of all guarantees in their original form, as operational before 1953, including art. 370 and 35A. Let alone JKPCC or any other entity, even if someone within @JKNC_ misinterprets the resolution. ..(they) will be rejected by the people and pushed into a corner of irrelevance like the allies of the BJP were in the last elections,” he wrote on X.
The NC MP’s outburst over Kharge’s comments on the BJP ‘keeping the issue of Article 370 alive’ coincided with J&K PCC chief Tariq Hameed Karra telling reporters in Srinagar that the meeting’s resolution of November 6 does not even mention the repealed constitutional provision, let alone refer to it. recovery.
“(Home Minister) Amit Shah is accusing Congress of spreading lies in his poll statements. He says Congress wants to bring back Article 370 (in J&K). Tell me, who said that and when?” Kharge said at a press conference in Pune in Maharashtra on Thursday.
“If it (the motion to revoke Article 370) has been passed in Parliament, why are you raising the issue again? If you want to say this, go to Kashmir and say it. Elections are over in Kashmir. “
Mehdi said the purpose of the new J&K Assembly resolution was to express the people’s disapproval of all the amendments and the allegedly unconstitutional revocation of the “guaranteed (special) status of J&K” from 1953 to 2019.
Salman Nizami of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party said the jousting between the Congress and the BJP over Article 370 had exposed the fault lines in the grand old party’s alliance with NC. “Both the Congress and the BJP call Article 370 a closed chapter, but your party has an alliance with the Congress and is donating scarves to the BJP to keep both in good spirits,” he told Mehdi.
“I feel sad for you because you have abandoned your own legacy and confined yourself to defending hypocrisy. Is this all you do now?’
State Congress chief Karra clarified that his party, which decided not to join the coalition government until J&K was restored to statehood, said there should be no ambiguity over the purpose of the assembly’s resolution. “We have already said that the only thing we can demand after the Supreme Court’s judgment on Article 370 is statehood. Despite our clear statement, the BJP is misrepresenting the facts during election rallies.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday while campaigning in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar in Maharashtra that the Congress and its allies were planning to have a separate constitution for J&K.