{"id":89703,"date":"2025-08-05T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=89703"},"modified":"2025-08-05T00:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:33:43","slug":"i-congratulate-everyone-if-statehood-is-restored-says-bjps-ashok-koul-revocation-of-article-370-has-integrated-jk-with-india-and-removed-draconian-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/i-congratulate-everyone-if-statehood-is-restored-says-bjps-ashok-koul-revocation-of-article-370-has-integrated-jk-with-india-and-removed-draconian-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"I congratulate everyone if statehood is restored, says BJP\u2019s Ashok Koul \u2018Revocation of Article 370 has integrated J&#038;K with India and removed draconian laws\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Aug 04:<\/strong>\u00a0Amid growing speculation that statehood to Jammu and Kashmir may be restored on August 5, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Ashok Koul on Monday said the party would congratulate everyone if the Union government grants back the status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf statehood is restored, we congratulate everyone,\u201d Koul told news agency KINS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He however said he has no information if the statehood would be restored. \u201cThe PM and HM have already said that statehood would be restored but I don\u2019t know when,\u201d he said, responding to unconfirmed reports suggesting that the Centre might announce the restoration of statehood on the anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the revocation of Article 370 has fully integrated Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of India and led to the removal of \u201cdraconian laws\u201d that had hampered development in the erstwhile state. \u201cArticle 370 revocation has integrated J&amp;K with India and removed draconian laws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Jammu and Kashmir leaders meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, Koul said it was a positive step. \u201cIt is good they are meeting since he is everyone\u2019s Home Minister,\u201d he added. (KINS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Aug 04:&nbsp;Amid growing speculation that statehood to Jammu and Kashmir may be restored on August 5, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Ashok Koul on Monday said the party would congratulate everyone if the Union government grants back the status. &ldquo;If statehood is restored, we congratulate everyone,&rdquo; Koul told news agency KINS. &nbsp; He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncatogorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89705,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89703\/revisions\/89705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}