Srinagar: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have talked about restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood in his address to the nation. Modi explained the benefits of the GST reforms to the people in his address to the nation on Sunday evening. The revised GST rates came into effect on Monday. “You are talking about GST, it would have been better had you (Modi) talked about our statehood in the speech,” Abdullah told reporters here. Asked if the NC is hopeful of getting a favourable judgement from the Supreme Court — where a petition on the matter is listed for hearing in the second week of October — Abdullah said every citizen of Jammu and Kashmir is hoping that statehood would be restored. “Not just the National Confere

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