Article 370: The Anti Modi Maroons will never come to the table but bark.

Narendra Modi's demand for 'debate on Article 370' sparks political row

Sanjay Khajuria | TNN | Jammu | Dec 2, 2013:: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's call for a debate on Article 370 of the Indian Constitution has snowballed into a political controversy in Jammu & Kashmir. 

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BJP defends  Modi, challenges Omar Abdullah for debate 

J&K unit of BJP on Monday slammed chief minister Omar Abdullah for criticizing Narendra Modi over his remark on Article 370 and challenged him to hold a debate over the issue with any BJP leader. 

"We accept his (Omar) challenge to hold a debate on Article 370. He must come forward to hold the debate with any BJP leader," state BJP president and MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma told reporters in Jammu on Monday. 

"Omar is trying to distort facts to mislead and hoodwink the general masses," Sharma said. 

The BJP leader claimed that both Congress and NC had "misused" Article 370 to deprive the people of the state of their fundamental rights and promote communalism, separatism and politics of regional discrimination. 

Sharma also debunked Omar's attack on Modi that he made a false statement that under Article 370, women in the state did not have the same rights as men. He said the chief minister was "blissfully ignorant" of the role played by BJP to ensure gender equality. 

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Article 370: BJP defends Narendra Modi, challenges Omar Abdullah for debate

PTI | JAMMU/NEW DELHI | 02 DEC 2012:: State unit of BJP on Monday slammed Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah for criticizing Narendra Modi over his remark on Article 370 and challenged him to hold a debate over the issue with any BJP leader.

"We accept his (Omar) challenge to hold a debate on Article 370. He must come forward to hold the debate with any BJP leader," state BJP president and MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma told reporters here on Monday.

Omar had on Sunday taken a dig at Modi for his comment to hold a debate over Article 370, saying, "I challenge him or any of his minions to reproduce verbatim the section of Article 370 that determines the J&K state subject law."

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Narendra Modi lacks constitutional knowledge: PDP

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.

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