Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 29: Former Union Minister and veteran Congres leader, Prof Saifuddin Soz today said that `Padam Bhushan’ Muzaffar Hussain Baig is wrong when he says that Article 370 is gone forever.
” My attention has been drawn to Muzaffar Baig’s statement that Article 370 of the Constitution of India is gone. He must see world history and realize that a peoples’ court is always supreme. It is a peoples’ political struggle on ground that has always brought desired changes in the system,” Soz said in a statement here.
“Our legal experts should extend support to the `J&K peoples political struggle’ for protection of their plank for `Internal Autonomy’. Even our popular leadership had taken notice of the fact in 1947 that Maharaja Pratap Singh to Maharaja Hari Singh, had decisively protected the internal autonomy of the State,” Soz added.
“Should we not take notice of the fact that Maharaja Hari Singh had initially acceded to India in three subjects only – Defence, Communications and Foreign Affairs and it was during Maharaja Pratap Singh’s time that the need to protect privileges of the natives was felt? We must also remember it always that we had only acceded to India while all other states had merged with India. That is the fundamental fact about our accession to India,” Soz claimed.
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