Kharge, Rahul write to PM Modi 'Statehood for J&K'

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi jointly wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, urging the government to bring a legislation in the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament to grant full statehood to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

They also requested that the government bring forward legislation



to include the Union Territory of Ladakh under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.

In their letter to Modi, Kharge and Rahul Gandhi said that for the past five years, the people of Jammu and Kashmir have consistently called for the restoration of full statehood.

This demand is both legitimate and firmly grounded in their constitutional and democratic rights, they said.