Jammu, February 12: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee President Tariq Hameed Karra on Wednesday announced a 15-day long campaign to press for restoration of statehood to the Union Territory.
He said the campaign will be launched from Udhampur district on February 13 as the BJP has so far failed to keep its statehood restoration promise and we have doubts on their intentions.
Karra said that there is a strange dilemma prevailing in Jammu and Kashmir where people are gradually developing cynicism after participating in the democratic exercise in large numbers with a hope to get their day-to-day issues addressed.
The demand for restoration of statehood is a key issue before and after the assembly elections & Karaa further added that "We reminded the Prime Minister and Home Minister of the promises and commitments made within and outside Parliament and on the soil of J&K about it" & we want our right to statehood to be restored as soon as possible.
Accusing the ruling party at the Centre of betraying the people of Jammu and Kashmir, he said that the BJP leadership is answerable for the delay in restoration of the statehood.
We will accelerate our campaign for the restoration of statehood, which is a 175-year-old heritage of the Dogra legacy which is being made fun of by the BJP, so we are starting a 15-day restore our statehood campaign from tomorrow under the title ‘our state, our right’ from Udhampur.
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