Srinagar: National Conference (NC) on Thursday said that the resolution passed by the State legislature to extend the Goods And Services Tax (GST) to J&K, was a “compromise with the Special Status of Jammu and Kashmir and amounts to a surrender of the fiscal autonomy of the State as guaranteed by the Constitution of India.”
In a meeting chaired by NC President Dr. Farooq Abdullah in Srinagar on Thursday, the NC political forum observed that the statement of the State Finance Minister Dr. Haseeb Drabu on the floor of the house terming the Article 370 of the Constitution of India as an obstruction to the development and progress of the State, reflects the machinations of the ruling dispensation against the special political and constitutional identity of J&K.
The meeting expressed that it is evident that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has committed its total support to Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ideological design to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution of India.
“The ruling alliance has used their majority in the legislature to muzzle the voice that reflected the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir on this crucial and sensitive issue”, they said.
“The party feels that the PDP has yet again exposed the hollowness of its deceitful, much-touted political agenda of ‘Self Rule’ with the sole objective of remaining glued to political power.”, they added.
“The National Conference would continue to fight for the rights and aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” they said.
The Core Group further decided that the National Conference legislators will boycott the remaining part of the legislative session as a protest against the “Government’s efforts to trample the aspirations of the people by demolishing the State’s special status.”
