PAGD will contest J&K poll jointly: Farooq Abdullah

Our Correspondent

Jammu, July 4

The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of a few political parties seeking restoration of Article 370 and statehood for J&K, will jointly contest the Assembly elections, said National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Monday. “If India has to progress, it will have to respect its existing diversity in religion and culture,” he said. According to Abdullah, if New Delhi could hold elections soon after the 2014 floods, why couldn't they hold in J&K now.

Respect diversity

If India has to progress, it will have to respect religious and cultural diversity. Farooq Abdullah, NC President

Last week, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha invited heads of all the mainstream political parties in the UT. The meeting assumes significance because this was the first time the mainstream political parties were invited to the Raj Bhavan after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019.

The invitation to the political parties came a day before the beginning of the 43-day annual Amarnath pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas.

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