Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Assam Pradesh President Ranjit Das and MPTapan Gogoi and Dilip Saikia welcomed the move of Central Government forscrapping Article 370 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference, Ranjit Das said that Shyama PrasadMukherjee had sacrificed for scrapping Article 370.
Talking about Article 371, Das said that opposition and otherorganizations have created chaos regarding the Article but there is nothing tofear over Article 371 as nothing will be changed.
Das further claims that the joining mission is much more than it hasbeen expected and that the mission is more successful in the state than thenational level.
MP Dilip Saikia said that witnessing such a historic step of scrappingArticle 370 after elected MP for the first time has been a proud moment forthem. He further said that there would not be any chance of intervention of anythird party in the problems of Kashmir.
Saikia also alleged that the Hindu Sikh minorities in Jammu and Kashmirwere deprived from their rights and now they will be able to access all theirrights as citizens. He also said that many observed August 5 as Black Day butthe day will be a rectification of a historic blunder.
Meanwhile, MP Tapan Gogoi thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi fortaking such a historic step.