Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday took potshots at National Conference leader Omar Abdullah and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over their remarks on statehood during the election campaign in Jammu and Kashmir and said it can only be done by Centre
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday reiterated that the opposition will use its full force to pressurise the Centre to restore Jammu and Kashmir's statehood.
Stepping up his attacks on the BJP-led central government, Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that they snatched statehood of Jammu and Kashmir so that it can be governed by outsiders.
Responding to Rahul Gandhi's rally in Poonch on Monday, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that the BJP-led government had promised to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and said the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha will take credit by saying it was he who put the pressure.
Emphasizing the need for restoring Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, Leader of opposition, Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that it is the foremost demand of the National-conference and the Congress to bring back statehood.
Taking a dig at the opposition parties in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already said in a public meeting in J&K's Doda that the status of statehood will be given to the J&K, but the leaders from the opposition pa
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge stated on Saturday that priority of Congress is to restore statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, adding that the state has never been changed to Union Territory before.
Congress leader Pramod Tiwari on Thursday claimed that the impressive polling in the first phase of assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir was an "expression of anger" against the Centre's decision to make it a Union Territory temporarily