SRINAGAR, Oct. 30 -- The National Conference on Wednesday made a last-minute appeal to the Centre to shelve the plan of bifurcating Jammu and Kashmir into union territories and urged it to maintain the statehood of the 200-year-old state.
Two union territories - Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh - will come into existence on Thursday.
The NC also requested political parties, intellectuals, academicians, civil society, traders and transporters to come together and join hands with the party to make a joint request to President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Parliament to retain Jammu and Kashmir as a state.
"As we are coming closer to becoming a UT, psychologically the feeling of inferiority has started gripping us. We are h...