Congress leaders are in tight spot as wife of senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, publicly supported BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's statement on Article 370.
Sunanda,herself being a Kashmiri pandit, raised a hornet's nest on Tuesday by publicly declaring that she finds Article 370 of the Constitution, that provides a special status to Jammu and Kashmir, 'anti-women' and gender discriminatory.
She also backed BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi's demand for a debate over the issue. 'I want someone to re-look at this article (Article 370). I am not asking to abolish it but please give us back our home also,' she was quoted as saying by a TV channel. It may be recalled that Modi during an election rally last year had termed Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor as 'Rs 50 crore girlfriend' while attacking the Union minister.
Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor feels that Article 370 needs a substantive relook as it is 'unfair', and allows Kashmiri women to be stripped of their rights as 'state subjects' if they marry non-Kashmiris. Referring to India's first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor said: 'I wish he had been more fair to Kashmiri women.'
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