Reacting to Omar's remarks that either J and K won't be part of India or Article 370 that grants special status to the state will still exist, senior RSS leader Ram Madhav said the state will always be an integral part of India with or without the provision.
Madhav also asked whether the Chief Minister thought the state was his "parental estate".
Observing that any move to abrogate Article 370 will be extremely dangerous, Omar said if BJP decides to recall the constitutional facility it would reopen the debate on state's accession to India.
He said the only way to revoke Article 370 is on the back of the body called constituent assembly.
This is the body that ratified the relationship of J and K with India, he said adding, if you were to recall the Constituent Assembly, you would be reopening the debate on Instrument of Accession.
The Chief Minister said that considering that we claim that entire J and K is ours and the BJP has always been saying that even the Pakistani side of Kashmir is India's part, the Constituent Assembly will have to have members from there too.
"But this is highly impossible. Who is going to recall a Constituent Assembly?," Omar asked.
A fresh controversy over Article 370 erupted yesterday following comments by the new Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh seeking debate on it.
He, however, later clarified that he was "misquoted" on the issue.
Reacting to Madhav's "parental estate" remarks, Omar asserted that he never said J and K has been his parental estate but he was citizen of the state and he had the right to speak about his rights.
Omar said he doesn't owe allegiance to the RSS and that no RSS wala can stop him from speaking for his state.
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