The autonomy resolution passed by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is fraught with disastrous consequences. Not only does it give encouraging signals to the separatist demands in various parts of the country, especially in the North East, but it also manifests the divisive communal mindset of the National Conference ...

This resolution ... is a fallout of the Kashmir policy pursued by past Governments at the Centre characterized by ... drift and ... appeasement, in disregard of our overall national interests. Every opportunity to fully integrate the State, like all other States that signed the Instrument of Accession, was thrown to the winds.

.. The (Central) Government felt satisfied with mere "erosion" and not the abrogation of Article 370 itself. The autonomy resolution seeks to undo even that quantum of integration, and take the State back to pre-1953 situation ... ... The ... resolution ... is only a step short of actual secession. Things would not have come to this pass, had the transitory Article 370 been abrogated in time.

Unfortunately, all major political parties, except the BJP, saw (Article 370) as a symbol of so-called secularism ...

The ABKM congratulates the people of Ladakh and Jammu, the two regions of the State, on their bold stand to condemn the autonomy resolution. It is also gratifying to note that the people of these two regions ... have unambiguously voiced their resolve ... that they want their regions to be fully and unconditionally integrated with Bharat. The ABKM hopes that their sentiments (and) aspirations, both developmental and political, are respected and seriously taken into account by the Central Government, while talking to the Hurriyat leaders or discussing extravagant demands of their partner.

. The autonomy resolution is the resolution of a section of the people in the Kashmir Valley ... A few lakh Hindus could not live with safety and dignity in a region of 95% ... They are rendered refugees ... When the State had not that much of autonomy ... The ABKM, therefore, urges upon the Government, to ensure that in any discussions with the protagonists of autonomy, which is just a thin veil for azadi, the uprooted Hindus of the Valley are rehabilitated ... and involved in deliberations at every level and the political aspirations of the Jammu and Ladakh regions are fully met.

Finally, ... all the people of the country intensely desire the full and final integration of all the regions of the J&K State by abrogating Article 370. Even those parts of J&K, which are under foreign occupation, are to be integrated ... The integrity and sovereignty of the whole country is at stake. Therefore, the ABKM calls upon all patriotic people to resist the demand of autonomy.