Srinagar: Though other senior leaders at state BJP on Wednesday remained tight over the recent statement of Dr Jitendra Singh over Article- 370, Professor Chaman Lal Gupta stated that BJP must contest the forthcoming assembly elections with the agenda of scarping state’s special status.
Gupta told KNS over phone that it is the need of the hour that BJP should go to people for votes with the promise that it will work for scraping of Article 370. “I believe that it should be the policy of the BJp to contest the forthcoming assembly polls in the state with the agenda of scarping Article 370. It is of no use now.”
Gupta while backing the statement of Dr Jitendra stated that when Jammu and Kashmir is like the other sates of India then why the special status is needed as the same has no relevance at present. “It the time of its formation, the Article was needed for the accession and when the state is an integral part of Indian Union, its vitality stands nowhere.”
Echoing the statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi made at Jammu during the election rally that BJP is ready to debate Article 370; Gupta stated that all concerned parties will be taken into confidence and will be made understand that Article 370 is doing more harm top to the state than delivering goods.
Commenting over remarks of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other parties that scraping Article 370 will infringe upon the instrument of accession, the senior BJP leader told KNS that the parties are using the decades old rhetoric. “Let them say what they are saying. I believe that Article 370 must go for the greater common good.”
Meanwhile, other senior BJP leadership remained tight lipped when asked to comment upon the issue of Article 370 and the demand of its revocation. The BJP leadership stated that it will first discuss and then will issue any statement over the issue.