People of J and K need freedom and restoration of their human rights: Chidambaram.

NEW DELHI -- Former Indian finance minister and Indian National Congress leader Palaniappan Chidambaram has said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir need freedom and restoration of their human rights.

P. Chidambaram talking to reporters at All India Congress Committee (AICC) Headquarters in New Delhi, said this while reacting on the Indian government's decision to allocate money in the budget for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

He said, 'What the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh require is freedom. The people of Kashmir need restoration of their human rights. Only a free society, people breathing free air can enjoy the fruit of development and participate in the development process. If they think they can take away freedom and substitute with money, they are completely wrong', Chidambaram said while.

He further said that the government's move was weak and hypocritical attempts to appease the Kashmiri people' and added, 'it will not succeed'.

'What they...