elected: AbdullahSrinagar, Oct 29 (PTI) Opposition National Conference(NC) president Farooq Abdullah said today that the party wouldgrant "regional autonomy" to various regions of the state ifit comes to power in the next Assembly elections.
"We have to focus towards this also that we have so manyregions in the state which have their own aspirations. We haveto look towards them also. We had formed a committee onregional autonomy. (NC leader Mohammad) Shafi (Uri) submitteda report also on that in which eight regions of the state havebeen discussed," Abdullah said here.
He was addressing a delegates' session of his party atSher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium here, which took place after agap of over 15 years.
During the session, Abdullah was re-elected as theNational Conference president.
He said granting "regional autonomy" to various regionsof the state would restore the rights of the people and it wassomething which the state government did not have to seek fromthe Centre.
"We do not have to get it from Delhi. If God bestows uswith success (in the polls), then the first thing which wewill do once we are in the Assembly and take the chairs is torestore the rights of the people and in a legal manner bypassing it under laws," Abdullah said.
He said the party would meet soon to discuss the issue.
"We are meeting in Jammu over the issue in which we willdiscuss how to give it a legal shape. I want to tell you fromthis stage that we will implement it," he said. PTI SSB MIJKJ.
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