Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is mixing Article 370 of the Constitution, which provides special status to Jammu and Kashmir, with the state's residency law.
"My problem is not with misinformation about this (state residency or state subject) law. It will take some time to percolate across the country.
"My problem is with people like Modi, who knowingly or unknowingly, I don't know which (it is), seek to sort of join Article 370 with our state subject laws," he told reporters at Sopore, 50 km from here.
The state's residency laws, popularly known as State Subject laws, have absolutely nothing to do with Article 370, Omar said.
"The Aritlce 370 determines the relation between the Centre and the state. It is the bridge that joins Jammu and Kashmir with rest of the country. Our state subject laws are our own. The state subject law as it exists now is not even a post-independence product. It is a pre-independence product," Omar said.
