Jammu Tawi, Jan. 9 -- Muzaffar Hussain Baig was referring to Mehbooba Mufti's 2017 remark in which she warned the govt against tinkering with people's rights and privileges under Article 370.

Senior PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig on Thursday said former chief minister and party president Mehbooba Mufti's "provocative" statement over Article 370 resulted in downgrading of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories.

Mufti had in 2017 warned the Centre that if special rights and privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution are tinkered with, then there would be no one in the state to hold the tricolour. She, besides Abdullahs, had been uttering highly threatening and provocative noises during few mo...