Mir said Prime Minister Narendra Modi called a meeting of the representatives of all political parties in Jammu and Kashmir in June 2021 and suggested delimitation, election and then restoration of statehood — in that order.He said although most of the political representatives had demanded the restoration of statehood before the Assembly polls in the Union Territory, Modi had insisted on delimitation, followed by the election and then statehood.While the delimitation exercise has been completed, the election has been held and an elected government is in place for 11 months now, the BJP-led Centre is yet to fulfil its promise of restoring statehood, Mir said.He said since day one — August 5, 2019 — the Congress has maintained that statehood must be restored in Jammu and Kashmir.Besides, he said, while wrapping up his 4,000-km Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar, Rahul Gandhi, along with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, had also committed that the party will ensure the restoration of statehood.Hussain pointed out that it is unprecedented that the powers of elected representatives are with unelected people like the LG.He said once the powers are restored to the elected government, only then will the people of Jammu and Kashmir come to know what sort of “scams” took place during the regime of unelected people.The Centre abrogated the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution, which had given special powers to Jammu and Kashmir, on August 5, 2019 and bifurcated the erstwhile state into Union territories.
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