Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday, 21 February, strongly opposed the demand for abrogating Article 370, amid the clamour for doing away with the special provision granting autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack.
The assertion by Kumar, who is the national president of the JD(U), came at a time when a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court with the request for scrapping the article and demands to this effect have been raised by a number of leaders of the BJP, his ally in the state.
“We can never think in terms of abrogating Article 370. Our party's stand has been clear on this issue. There has been a terror attack and whatever action is required to punish those guilty besides preventing such incidents in future should be taken,” Kumar told reporters here.