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Srinagar, Nov 27 (PTI) The struggle for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir"s statehood will continue till the people of the region get their identity back, even if "we have to sacrifice our lives", Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Saturday.Addressing a party workers" meeting in the Devsar area of south Kashmir"s Kulgam district, he said the Centre"s August 5, 2019 decisions to revoke Jammu and Kashmir"s special status and bifurcating the erstwhile state into Union territories was something that no one would have imagined."A lightening struck Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019.
Something which no one would have thought or guessed happened.
Not just the people of Kashmir or Jammu or Ladakh, but no citizen of India would have thought that Jammu and Kashmir would be divided into two parts and two Union territories would be carved out of it," Azad said.The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said usually, a Union Territory is made into a state, but perhaps for the first time, a state was downgraded into a Union Territory."It was like a DGP turned into a thanedaar, a chief minister into just an MLA and a chief secretary into a patwari.
No one would have thought something like this would happen.
We thought no wise person would do such a thing and there was something messed up.
It was untoward.