National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, who is attending a Parliament session for the first time since the Centre abrogated the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, said on Saturday that the Union Territory deserved the same rights as the rest of the country, reported ANI.
“Jammu and Kashmir situation is such that where progress was supposed to happen, there is no progress,” Abdullah said in Lok Sabha, according to ThePrint. “Today our children, shopkeepers don’t have a 4G facility that is there in the rest of the country. How will they study, get education, when everything these days is on the internet? If India is progressing, does Jammu and Kashmir have no right to progress with the rest of the country?”
The National Conference chief also pointed out that border skirmishes have been on the rise and locals were dying. “A way has to…