Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday promised restoration of statehood for J&K at “an appropriate time” and a good resolution of demands raised by people of the Union Territory of Ladakh. Speaking at a conclave in Patna, he claimed that after the abrogation of Article 370, terror-infested J&K has ‘taken a U-turn’ and “no local terrorist has been recruited in last nine months”.

“This is a qualitative change that J&K, where separatism had been festering since the 1990s, witnessed. Earlier, Pakistan felt no need to send terrorists from across the border. They used to place arms in the hands of our children. Now the situation has changed. The people of J&K feel they belong to the entire country and the entire country belongs to them,” Shah said.

“Today, democracy has been restored in J&

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