Congress promises restoration of J&K statehood within one week

Vows to scrap smart meters in J&K if elected
Srinagar, May 9: While the power paucity continues to plunge the people of Kashmir into darkness, the Jammu and Kashmir unit of Congress Thursday promised to throw the smart meters out from the Union Territory and assured that if the grand alliance party is voted to power, the statehood will also be restored with the period of just one week after the formation of the government.

Pertinently, the smart meters have been installed at maximum places across Jammu and Kashmir by the incumbent administration with an aim to end the power woes in the Union Territory.
However, the Congress’s J&K unit Chief, Vikar Rasool Wani, stated the issues being faced by the people with regard to the power paucity will come to an end if INDI Alliance is voted to power. “We are committed to throw the smart meters out of J&K once the new government takes over,” he said.
He added that the party has taken up the issue of Statehood with Rahul Gandhi many times, and the party is committed to ensure the restoration of Statehood to J&K within the period of one week after the formation of the government.
Wani has also exhorted confidence that the candidates of INDI Alliance will secure all the six Parliamentary seats of J&K and Ladakh. “We are expecting victory from both the seats of Jammu and also three seats of Kashmir and one in Ladakh. The INDI Alliance partners have chosen the candidates unanimously and we hope that not only in J&K and Ladakh, but across India, the INDI Alliance will emerge victorious with a thumping majority and will form the next dispensation in the centre,” he said.
Pertinently, Wani also stated that a candidate from north Kashmir’s Baramulla seat, Zameer Ahmad has preferred to stay away from polls and will be campaigning for INDI Alliance’s candidate, Omar Abdullah for the seat.