New Delhi: The Congress has demanded that elections be held in Jammu and Kashmir as per the timeframe set by the Supreme Court docket so that individuals can elect their representatives, safe constitutional rights and put a full cease to the ‘bureaucracy-ruled’ system. The get together’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday mentioned that the BJP’s coverage on Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh neither respects ‘Kashmiriyat’ nor maintains ‘Jamhooriyat’.

This assertion got here on the fifth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370. The Middle repealed Article 370 on at the present time in 2019 and divided Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Kharge mentioned that the Modi authorities had claimed that this transfer would assist absolutely combine Jammu and Kashmir, promote financial growth of the area and stop terrorism and separatism.