Srinagar, Sept. 21 -- Congress leader and MLA Dooru Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Thursday said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir are suffering because both the elected Chief Minister and the Lieutenant Governor are "doing things their own way" without coordination.

Mir said that no other state in the country has faced what Jammu and Kashmir went through on August 5, 2019, when it was downgraded from a state to a Union Territory. He said the move has left people with "the biggest pain of losing their statehood."

He also said that the Government of India had assured that elections would be held first and statehood would be restored afterward. "Elections did happen, but even after a year, no initiative has been taken to return statehood," he sai...