PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said India's presence in Jammu and Kashmir will be rendered illegal if the conditions of Instrument of Accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh in October 1947 were not restored.
She said the decisions of August 5, 2029 — when the Centre abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir — were illegal.
"Conditions on which Jammu and Kashmir had acceded to India will have to be restored or your occupation here becomes illegal. The guarantees of the 1947 accession cannot be snatched from us legally. If anyone does it illegally, then BJP will have to do a fresh accession. On what terms will that be, I don't know," Mehbooba said at the party office here.
"It was signed by the Maharaja and supported by Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. The decision taken on August 5, 2019 was illegal, was illegal, was illegal," she added. Mehbooba said it was ironic that while the government has announced October 26 as a holiday to celebrate J&K’s accession with India, it was running over the accession’s spirit.