J&K Peoples Conference (JKPC) chairman Sajad Lone on August 31 expressed disappointment over the submissions made by the Centre before the Supreme Court (SC), which is hearing the petitions challenging Article 370.
“The submissions that have been made in the SC are not very dissimilar from the statements made by the Centre in the past four years. I am disappointed. The judiciary is the highest seat and if it asks a question and the answer is same, as ambiguous as it was four years, as evasive as four years, it is a matter of concern,” Mr. Lone said.
Mr. Lone was referring to the Centre’s submission to the SC where it stated about not restoring statehood immediately and withholding any timeline for Assembly elections in the Union Territory. The SC had earlier asked the Centre to share a roadmap for the same for J&K, whose special constitutional status ended in 2019.
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