JAMMU, Oct. 12 -- Calling the BJP a "lollipop" party which has allegedly hoodwinked the people of Jammu and Kashmir for the past 11 years, deputy chief minister Surinder Choudhary on Saturday said that people of the union territory have high hopes from the Supreme Court, which has been delivering justice in the country for decades.

On Friday, the apex court granted four weeks to the Centre to clarify its stand on restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

A bunch of pleas, including those filed by academician Zahoor Ahmad Bhat and socio-political activist Ahmad Malik, have pressed for the implementation of the Centre's assurance to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir "at the earliest".

On a visit to review restoration of the approach...