Amid raging political controversy over Article 370, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday warned the BJP-led Government at the Centre against repealing it as “it would create more trouble”.

“The BJP-led Government at the Centre should not touch Article 370 as it will create more trouble and any attempt made to revoke it would be a dangerous step,” said Manjhi while addressing mediapersons in Gaya. For the last three days Manjhi has been on official trip to his home district Gaya after becoming the Chief Minister.

He further said that special status was given to Jammu & Kashmir under special circumstances and it should be protected through provisions made for it. Significantly, Manjhi also endorsed the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah who recently had said that if Article 370 would be repealed Kashmir would not be a part of India.

“The J&K Chief Minister had rightly said that if Article 370 would be revoked Jammu & Kashmir would not be a part of India…it is must for his State,” Manjhi said.Manjhi also reminded people of the State that his predecessor Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had sensed all these hidden agendas of the BJP even a year ago and he snapped his ties with the the BJP in the State “but did not compromise with his political principles”.

Manjhi further said that he has directed his officials to prepare a charter of demands for the State which he would hand over to Prime Minister Narendra Modi reminding of the pre-poll promises he had made.Meanwhile, the former JD(U) leader and party Rajya Sabha MP Shivanand Tiwari has said that the provisions of Article 370 should be implemented in whole country to end the unnecessary ongoing controversy over it.

“It is necessary to implement Article 370 provisions throughout the country, even the rights of States and districts too should be curtailed to empower village committees and panchayats,” he said.Shivanand Tiwari further said that today there was no 1947-like situation to provide special rights to the Centre.

“Today the situation in the country is different from 1947 so decentralisation of power is must...there is no need to have so much special powers in the hand of the Central Government”, said Shivanand Tiwari.Besides, said Shivanand Tiwari, many States like Bihar, Punjab and Tamil Nadu have been demanding special status and rights from the Centre on various issues “so its better to implement Article 370 to every State in the country”.

Earlier, the newly appointed Minister of State at the Prime Minister’s office Jitendra Singh had stirred a controversy saying the Central Government has started the process for repealing Article 370, though, he later clarified that he was misquoted by media.later, while reacting over Singh’s statement the J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that if article 370 would be revoked from the State “it would not be a part of India”.

Apparently taking offence over J&K chief minister’s statement the RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav twitted promptly that that Jammu and Kashmir was not Abdullahs’ “parental estate”.“J&K won’t be part of IndiaIJ Is Omar thinking its his parental estate…370 or no 370 J&K has been and will always be an integral part of India”, Madhav twitted.