Srinagar, Aug. 6 -- Ruling National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Wednesday said he would raise the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir issue in the meeting of INDIA bloc parties in Delhi the following day.
Farooq Abdullah was responding to a question about Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's letter on Tuesday to the presidents of 42 political parties, including Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, urging them to press the Centre to bring legislation in the ongoing Parliament session to restore statehood to J-K.
"I am going there myself tomorrow. A Congress leader has called all opposition leaders. I will raise this issue there and hope that they have stood with us before as well, and will stand with us in future also," Abd...