Jammu & Kashmir Polls: Article 370, J&K's Statehood Restoration Among 12 Guarantees in National Conference Manifesto

The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) has resolved to strive for the restoration of Article 370, 35A and statehood as it was prior to August 5, 2019, in its manifesto released on Monday for the upcoming assembly elections.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and NC president Farooq Abdullah. (HT FIle)

Among its 12 guarantees, the party has also said that it will work for the full implementation of the “autonomy resolution” passed by the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in 2000.

“In the interim period, we will endeavour to redraw the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 and the Transaction of Business of the Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Rules, 2019,” said the National Conference.