The Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also announced separate protest demonstrations outside their party headquarters in Jammu to mark the seventh anniversary of the August 5, 2019 developments, when the Centre abrogated J&K’s special status under Article 370 and bifurcated the erstwhile state into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. In a statement issued by the NC headquarters here, Gupta said August 5 remains one of the “darkest days” in the constitutional and democratic history of Jammu and Kashmir. The people of Jammu and Kashmir continue to bear the political, constitutional and emotional consequences of those decisions,” he said. “The people were assured that statehood would be restored at the earliest, yet years have passed without any concrete action. He said the party is also observing August 5 as “black day”.