JAMMU, April 7 -- Senior Congress leader and DDC Suchetgarh, Taranjit Singh Tony today appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to spell out a clear timeline for the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, saying the people have waited long enough and deserve a definitive answer.
Speaking in the backdrop of Amit Shah's ongoing three-day visit to the Union Territory, the senior Congress leader said that merely holding elections without restoring statehood is a futile and wasteful exercise. "This is nothing but another jumla to mislead the people. The BJP had made a solemn promise that statehood would be restored after elections, and even the Supreme Court had directed the Centre to restore statehood within a time-bound framework aft...