{"id":31313,"date":"2026-09-26T02:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=31313"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:47:30","slug":"lop-says-bjp-ready-for-statehood-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/lop-says-bjp-ready-for-statehood-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"LoP says BJP ready for statehood debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rejects discussion on Article 370, autonomy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Sep 25: Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sunil Sharma on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ready to debate the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir but will oppose any discussion on Article 370 or the autonomy resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing reporters, Sharma, as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), questioned the reference to the autonomy resolution in the Chief Minister\u2019s move. \u201cToday\u2019s resolution moved by the Chief Minister is controversial and disputed. The BJP had rejected the autonomy resolution. Why is that resolution being discussed again in today\u2019s resolution?\u201d Sharma asked.<\/p>\n<p>He further urged the Congress party to clarify its position on Article 370, the autonomy resolution, and the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress should clear its position-from Rahul Gandhi to the State Chief of Congress. Is it with this resolution? Is it with the pre\u20111953 resolution? Is it with the resolution of 370?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>The LoP also questioned the Chief Minister\u2019s stance, recalling that he was a minister in the NDA government headed by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee when the autonomy resolution was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the BJP rejected and tore up this resolution, wasn\u2019t Omar Abdullah a minister in the NDA at that time? Didn\u2019t he continue as a partner of the NDA?\u201d Sharma asked.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that the government was using the statehood issue to divert attention from governance-related concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BJP is prepared for a discussion on statehood but will oppose bringing Article 370 and autonomy into the debate. If you want to debate statehood, we are ready to debate,\u201d Sharma said. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejects discussion on Article 370, autonomy Srinagar, Sep 25: Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sunil Sharma on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ready to debate the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir but will oppose any discussion on Article 370 or the autonomy resolution. Addressing reporters, Sharma, as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31315,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions\/31315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}