Narendra Modi lacks constitutional knowledge: PDP
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| BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally at MA Stadium in Jammu |
Press Trust of India | NDTV | Jammu | December 02, 2013:: "Article 370 is permanent and cannot be scrapped. Even Parliament is not constitutionally mandated to review or scrap it," Mr Sayeed said.
Slamming Narendra Modi over his demand for a debate on Article 370, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) today said the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate lacks constitutional knowledge and his remarks can create fissures in Jammu and Kashmir.
PDP patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said Article 370 providing special status to Jammu and Kashmir has gained a permanent status after the constitutional assembly of the state approved it and cannot be scrapped.
LET THE LION COME TO INDIAN PARLIAMENT. HE WILL MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND ALL ABOUT INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND ANTI INDIAN CONSPIRACY AGAINST CONSTITUTION. ~ Editor, Modi Times.
"We express concern at the serious gaps in the constitutional knowledge (with regard to Article 370) of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate," he said.
The PDP patron said that Mr Modi's comments can create fissures within the state besides increasing trust deficit between the state and rest of the country.
"If Modi aspires for the top job of a country as diverse as India he will have to rise above prejudices, perceptions, propaganda and work for uniting people rather than dividing them," he said.
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"His raking up of Article 370 is a very disturbing indicator of his approach to sensitivities of the people of Jammu and Kashmir who acceded to India in pursuit of some dreams which still elude them and constitutional guarantees that can neither be withdrawn nor wished away," the PDP patron said.
Courtesy: PTI | NDTV | Sify.
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