On Saturday, senior Congress leader and former union minister, Saifuddin Soz said that Mehbooba Mufti has “reflected the feelings of an average Kashmiri by saying that she will not hold the tri-colour until the State’s flag is restored with the status of the State.”
Soz said that the important question is “what the union expects from the beleaguered people of Kashmir who are determined to continue their struggle for restoration of the special status.”
“The Modi Government has internationalized the Kashmir issue once again. World-famous intellectuals like Noam Chomsky of America and Johan Galtung of Spain have raised their voice against the treatment of Kashmir by the Modi government. Both these high-ranking intellectuals have said that Kashmir has been rendered into a prison with the entire population as prisoners,” Soz said in a statement.
He added that everything cannot be normal in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. “Today or tomorrow, the abrogated Article 370 or its exact equivalent shall have to be restored. Otherwise, the constitutional relationship between the State and the Union would continue to remain a flawed situation,” he said.