JAMMU, July 3 -- Advocate Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, has strongly dismissed speculative media narratives suggesting that fresh Assembly elections would be mandatory following the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement issued here today, the senior NC leader termed these assumptions as "constitutionally unfounded and democratically misleading."
He was responding to recent remarks by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who stated he has no objection to dissolving the current Assembly if statehood is restored. While welcoming Omar Abdullah's statement, he clarified that "dissolution of the Assembly is not a constitutional compulsion, but rather a political choice."
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