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JAMMU, 23 Jan:<\/strong> The demand for statehood is Jammu & Kashmir’s biggest issue and the Congress will use “our full power” to get it reinstated, party MP Rahul Gandhi said on Monday as his Bharat Jodo Yatra arrived here to a grand welcome.<\/p>\n Gandhi, who met a cross section of people from Jammu & Kashmir during his yatra, said that J&K has the highest level of unemployment in the country.<\/p>\n “The Congress party will fully support you and your statehood (demand). To reinstate statehood, the Congress will use our full power,” Gandhi told a gathering at Satwari Chowk here.<\/p>\n “Statehood is your biggest issue. There is no big issue as big as statehood. Your right has been snatched,” he said.<\/p>\n Gandhi said he spoke to a cross section of people from J&K during his yatra and they raised their issues. He said that they told him that their voices are not being heard by the administration.<\/p>\n “The entire trade is being run by outsiders and the people of J&K watch them sitting haplessly,” he said.<\/p>\n Gandhi said Jammu & Kashmir has the highest level of unemployment in the country. Youngsters aspire to become engineers, doctors and lawyers but they find they cannot, he said.<\/p>\n “There was another way (to get employment) earlier. It was with the army. It has also been closed now by a new scheme, called Agniveer, introduced by BJP. That path is also now closed,” he said.<\/p>\n In August 2019, the NDA government revoked Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu & Kashmir and proposed the state be divided into two union territories – Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JAMMU, 23 Jan: The demand for statehood is Jammu & Kashmir’s biggest issue and the Congress will use “our full power” to get it reinstated, party MP Rahul Gandhi said on Monday as his Bharat Jodo Yatra arrived here to a grand welcome. Gandhi, who met a cross section of people from Jammu & Kashmir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}