'Lacklustre, deliberately understated event': PDP takes swipe at NC's Delhi protest for J&K statehood
PDP leader Iltija Mufti criticized the NC's Delhi protest as 'lacklustre' and a 'deliberately understated one-day event' that avoided mentioning Article 370.
Mufti said a protest at Jantar Mantar would have demanded restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370.
The PDP stayed away from the NC protest after setting conditions: the agenda must include restoration of Article 370, release of political prisoners, and lifting the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami.
Mehbooba Mufti, in a letter to NC president Farooq Abdullah, explained the PDP would not join a protest focused solely on statehood.
Article 370 was revoked on August 5, 2019, and the state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
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