Jammu, Feb. 7 -- Senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Sunil Sharma, on Saturday said there is no mention of any "special status" for Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian Constitution and accused the National Conference (NC) of misleading people by repeatedly raising the issue.

Speaking in the Assembly, Sharma said that constitutional demands must be backed by explicit constitutional provisions. "As far as I know and have studied, there is no word called 'special status' in the Indian Constitution in relation to Jammu and Kashmir's accession or merger. When you make a constitutional demand, it must have a constitutional basis," he said.

Sharma argued that the term "special status" is used loosely b...