‘Deceitful ploy to erode State’s Special Status’: Statistical Bill Row

Calling the extension of Collection of Statistics Amendment Bill-2017 to Jammu and Kashmir as a “deceitful ploy to erode state’s autonomy”, Kashmir’s civil society and business community on Thursday said the PDP-BJP government is “not leaving any stone unturned to fulfill RSS agenda.” A day after the Bill that will empower the government of India to directly collect data from J&K was passed by Rajya Sabha “without taking state legislature into confidence”, the civil society members and business community unanimously called the move as “another nail in the coffin of…

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