The CPI(M) leader and former legislator of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, on Tuesday demanded the “restoration of constitutionally-guaranteed rights” to people of J&K.
Pointing out that “there is a huge, unprecedented disappointment” prevailing in Kashmir and other parts of the erstwhile State “against what has been done arbitrarily,” Mr. Tarigami told journalists of The Hindu Group that “we have this aspiration to be counted. We need to be heard. That opportunity to us has not been provided, unfortunately.”
To a query, he clarified that “the restoration of rights” did not just mean the return to Statehood. “We want to be treated as citizens with rights,” he said.
