Cong to launch 15-day campaign for Statehood from today

Jammu, Feb 12: Congress Party will launch 15-day long campaign demanding statehood for J&K.
The campaign will be launched from Udhampur district from February 13.
This was informed by the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president, Tariq Hameed Karra, on Wednesday.
Karra said, the campaign will be launched from Udhampur district on February 13 as the “BJP has so far failed to keep its statehood restoration promise and we have doubts on their intentions”.
He said, “We want our right to be restored as soon as possible”.
Accusing the ruling party at the Centre of ‘betraying the people” of Jammu and Kashmir, he said the BJP leadership is answerable for the delay in restoration of the statehood.
“We are starting a 15-day ‘restore our statehood’ campaign from tomorrow (Thursday) under the title ‘our state, our right’ from Udhampur,” he said.
The Congress leader also paid rich tributes to the two army personnel, including a captain, who lost their lives in an IED attack near the LoC in Akhnoor sector of Jammu on Tuesday and said “such incidents expose the tall claims of the government that everything is fine.”
Karra also demanded a judicial probe into the recent suicide of a young man after alleged police harassment in Kathua district and also sought an end to alleged rise in criminal activities in Jammu.
He said, the people have lost hope due to failure of the government to address their issues due to the dual power centre in the Union Territory.