Agencies
New Delhi, Aug 5: Union home minister Amit Shah, who announced the government's plans to end Jammu and Kashmir's statehood this morning, held out some hope in the evening that it might be restored one day, after it becomes the country's most developed area.
The government is pushing through a bill to "reorganize" Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories - Ladakh without any legislature and Jammu and Kashmir with one.
"It may take time but Jammu and Kashmir will become normal again. At the right time J&K will become a state again. Don't want the state to remain a Union Territory forever," Amit Shah said. |
