'Article 370 has gone forever and will never come back', says Union Minister Anurag Thakur

BUDGAM (Jammu and Kashmir): Union Minister of State (MoS) Anurag Thakur on Saturday asserted that Article 370 has "gone forever", despite several statements made by former Chief Ministers Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti that they would bring it back.

"Farooq Abdullah says he will seek China's help. Mehbooba Mufti says she will take the help of Pakistan, the country that gave us terrorism. They say they will bring back Article 370, but I say Article 370 has gone forever and will never come back," Thakur said while speaking at a rally in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, ahead of the sixth phase of the DDC election scheduled to commence tomorrow.

The Minister of State further said that voting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would ensure education, employment and development in the union territory.