Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:02pm on 29 Dec 2023,Friday Politics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an exclusive interview with India Today, stated that for the first time, the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are free with Article 370 gone forever, emphasizing the historic significance of the move. He said the people of J&K were deprived of rights for seven decades despite India's first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru saying that Article 370 'ghiste ghiste ghis jaayega' (it would disappear one day). Modi said the people of J&K and Ladakh are now free to ‘shape their destinies’ with their own hands. On holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir, PM Modi said, "Jammu and Kashmir is already represented in our Parliament at the national level. At the local level, for the first time, we have been able to take democracy to the grassroots. A three-tier panchayati raj system has been established in the state and 35,000 leaders elected at the grassroots." [Photo Courtesy: India Today]
