Restoration of Statehood

SRINAGAR: The newly formed Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, passed a significant motion today, calling on the Central Government to reinstate statehood to the region.   In its first official cabinet meeting, the Cabinet endorsed a resolution urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration to return full statehood to Jammu and […]

While campaigning for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections, Omar Abdullah’s speeches were downright seditious. The National Conference’s manifesto is about restoring Article 370 and undoing everything that the LG administration has worked for and towards in these five years, that is, development, economic stabilisation and growth and of course, dealing with the cross-border terrorism […]

When analysts, commentators, and Kashmir experts write that abrogating Article 370 and converting J&K into two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh was fraught and that statehood should be restored, native Kashmiris like me wonder what is next.