News Mania / Piyal Chatterjee / 14th October 2024
On Sunday, Congressman P Chidambaram stated that the INDIA bloc parties should back the restoration of statehood as the top priority for the incoming Jammu and Kashmir administration. He stated that they should move to court if the government does not agree because the federal government had promised the Supreme Court that statehood would be restored.
“After the election results in J-K and days before the new government will take office, the LG of J-K has taken powers to himself that mocks the verdict of the people,The first task of the new government should be to demand the restoration of statehood to J-K, and all the I.N.D.I.A. parties should support the demand” said he
“Failing a positive response, the new J-K government should not hesitate to approach the Supreme Court,” Chidambaram said in his post.
“Recall that the Supreme Court was persuaded to not rule on the constitutionality of the reduction in the status of J&K because the central government undertook to restore statehood very quickly,” he said.
“If the central government hesitates to do so, it will be a breach of its promise as well as amount to contempt of Court,” the former Union minister said.
