National Conference President Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday that the demand of the state cannot only be done as a factor to find out whether terrorist attacks would occur in Jammu and Kashmir.
The comment was made by the NC chief after the Supreme Court, while hearing the petitions, said that the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir could not be ignored as a state and said that incidents in Pahgam cannot be ignored.
Talking to reporters, Farooq Abdullah said, “Nobody can do anything. This (terrorist attack) still happened when it was a kingdom. It is not. It is not just as responsible for the state. It will happen because we do not have good relations with our neighbors. They (terrorists).
Expressing hope in the judicial process, Abdullah said, “People hope that the Supreme Court will focus on it and restore our rights, something that the government has also promised outside Parliament.”
The apex court, listening to the arguments of seeking direction to restore the state of the state region of Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday saw that in the event of the state, the ground situation would have to be taken into account.
A bench of CJI Br Gavai and Justion K Vinod Chandran said, “You cannot ignore what happened in Pahgam.”
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was present for the Center, said, the government had assured the state after the elections, but there is a strange situation. He said that the assembly elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir, as promised to the Constitution Bench, which retained the cancellation of Article 370 and the domination of Jammu and Kashmir in two center areas.
He said, “This is not time for the petitioners to manipulate the water,” he added. Mehta demanded eight weeks to seek instructions from the government on the issue.
In 2019, on the recommendation of Parliament, the President agreed to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019. Accordingly, the former state of Jammu and Kashmir was reorganized as the new union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the new Union Region of Ladakh on 31 October 2019.