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The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|May 31, 2025
DAYS after the Congress squirmed after its leader Shashi Tharoor aligned himself with the government's Operation Sindoor against Pakistan's terror nests, another veteran leader Salman Khurshid on Friday went completely against the party line, saying the abrogation of Article 370 in J&K in 2019 ushered in prosperity and democratic progress to the region.
Speaking to members of Indonesian think tanks and academia as part of an all-party Indian parliamentary delegation, Khurshid acknowledged that the special status previously granted to J&K had contributed to a sense of separation from the rest of India.
This story is from the May 31, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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