BJP hits out at Cong-NC alliance after Pak Defence Minister claims “Pak on same page as NC-Cong on restoration of Article 370”

The BJP on Thursday hit out at the Congress-National Conference alliance after Pakistan Defence Minister Khwaja Asif said that Pakistan and the alliance were on the identical page when it came to the restoration of Article 370 the complete way during the Union Territory.

BJP leader Amit Malviya in a post on X said, “Pakistan, a terrorist state, endorses Congress and National Conference’s position on Kashmir. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, on Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk on Geo News says, “Pakistan and National Conference-Congress alliance are on the identical page in Jammu & Kashmir to revive Article 370 and 35A”. How is it that, from Pannun to Pakistan, Rahul Gandhi and his Congress, are always seen on the side of those inimical to India’s interest?”

पाकिस्तान के रक्षा मंत्री का आर्टिकल 370 और 35A पर कांग्रेस और JKNC के समर्थन की बात ने एक बार फिर कांग्रेस को एक्सपोज कर दिया है। इस बयान ने पुनः यह स्पष्ट कर दिया है कि कांग्रेस और पाकिस्तान के इरादे भी एक हैं और एजेंडा भी। पिछले कुछ वर्षों से राहुल गाँधी देशवासियों की भावनाओं…

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Earlier speaking on Geo News to senior journalist Hamid Mir in a show Capital Talk, the Pakistan Defence Minister became asked whether Pakistan and National Conference-Congress alliance are on the identical page on the restoration of Article 370 and 35A in Jammu and Kashmir.

Khwaja Asif replied, “Absolutely. Even our demand might be the identical…”
Pakistan’s Defence Minister also claimed that that Article 370 may perhaps return should the NC-Congress alliance come to power in JK.

“I feel it be miles you may imagine. Currently, the National Conference and Congress have very big importance over there. The population of the valley has been motivated a lot on this issue and I in truth have faith, there's a massive gamble that the Conference (National Conference) will come to power. They've made this an election issue that the status of Jammu and Kashmir should be restored,” Asif told Geo News
Earlier NC Patron Farooq Abdullah reiterated his birthday celebration’s stand saying that the alliance would certainly are attempting to revive the special status if voted to power.

“How several years BJP took to abrogate it (Article 370)? By God willing, we restore it. It (Article 370) is the heartbeat of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Article 370 and 35 A will likely be restored,” Farooq Abdullah told reporters.

Former CM Omar Abdullah also expressed hope about the return of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.

“Nothing is most not going. If it were most not going, the Supreme Court would now not have given the decision in favour of Article 370 thrice…If this day a 5-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court has announced a verdict against Article 370, then isn’t it you may imagine that the following day a seven-judge constitution bench will give a verdict in favour of Article 370,” Omar had said.

Notably, the assembly polls are being held in Jammu and Kashmir in three phases. The primary phase of vote casting became held on September 18. The 2nd phase of vote casting will take place on September 25 and the third on October 1. The counting of votes will take place on October eight.