Bukhari ups ante on statehood restoration of J&K

Tribune News Service

Jammu, July 21

The Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday upped the ante for the restoration of the statehood to J&K that was dismantled simultaneously with the scrapping of its special status, saying “it is necessary to overcome the simmering political disengagement prevalent among people”.

The call for the restoration has been amplified by the Apni Party chief to reassert that there could be no compromise on the restoration of the statehood to J&K “even when his party is reluctantly reconciling to the loss of the special status, but wants J&K and its people to be treated on a par with the people in the rest of country”.

Bukhari, who was stuck up in Delhi for four months, has reactivated his party’s political activities after his return to Srinagar about a week ago.

Today, he was interacting with leaders of prominent workers in the recently inaugurated office in Jammu, where he insisted that “re-establishing J&K as a State would be a practical step to bring good governance, economic development and peace and stability to the region”.