Need to Rethink Article 370: Sunanada Pushkar Backs Modi
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New Delhi | Dec 03, 2013: BJP prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who in his recent rally in Jammu said that there was a need for debate on Article 370 has received unexpected support from Congress MP and Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar.
In an interview to CNN-IBN, she said that Article 370, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, needs to be reconsidered because it discriminates against women.
She said that there is definitely a need to rethink beacuse there is a lot of discrimination against women. "My friends from Kashmir called me and said that we girls do not get government jobs once we marry someone who is a non-Kashmiri. The girls who get married into Kashmiri families, who are not Kashmiri girls, they get government jobs and their children have all of the rights," she added.
However, she said that Article 370 has not impeded development in the in J&K, adding that she agrees that the Kashmiri Pandits need to be rehabilitated.
In an interview to CNN-IBN, she said that Article 370, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, needs to be reconsidered because it discriminates against women.
She said that there is definitely a need to rethink beacuse there is a lot of discrimination against women. "My friends from Kashmir called me and said that we girls do not get government jobs once we marry someone who is a non-Kashmiri. The girls who get married into Kashmiri families, who are not Kashmiri girls, they get government jobs and their children have all of the rights," she added.
However, she said that Article 370 has not impeded development in the in J&K, adding that she agrees that the Kashmiri Pandits need to be rehabilitated.
Courtesy: Outlook
