Any Change In Jammu And Kashmir’s Status Will Kill Mainstream Thought: Sajad Lone* Lone, who was a minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government, advised the Centre to not fiddle with the special Constitutional provisions of the state.

February 25, –WITH A clutch of pleas on Article 35A likely to be heard by the Supreme Court later this week, BJP ally and Peoples’ Conference chief Sajad Lone said that any tampering with the special Constitutional character of Jammu and Kashmir would mean “the death of mainstream thought” in the state.

Lone also described the attacks on Kashmiris outside the Valley, following the Pulwama attack, as the “seven darkest days”. He also said that the arrest of the top leadership of Jamat-e-Islami would only help the separatists and provide them with “another set of leadership” for the next three decades.