SRINAGAR: The opposition parties in Jammu and Kashmir led by National Conference claimed that the abrogation of article 35 (A) is akin to playing with fire and can trigger bigger revolt than 2008 Amarnath land row across the state.The parties formed a united front to start a campaign in all three regions of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh to aware people about dangerous implication of abrogation of article 35 (A). National Conference parliamentarian Farooq Abdullah also reminisced J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti of her promise to leave the chair if the article 35 (A) was abrogated. Hurriyat leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer and Yasin Malik have called for a shutdown on August 12 to protest against any attempt to abrogate article 35 (A).“Agenda of BJP and RSS is basically to erode autonomous structure of this state and we as a united front are going to bring this to people, so that they know what are the dangerous implications of the abrogation of article 35 (A),” Abdullah told reporters after convening a meeting of all opposition parties in the state.Article 35 (A) that ensures special privileges to the residents of J&K has been contested in the Supreme Court and the three-judge bench is likely to deliver its verdict on the issue in first week of September.Earlier, Advocate General K Venugopal told the SC that the petition against article 35(A) was ‘very sensitive’ requiring ‘larger debate’ to which J&K Chief Minister in a belated response said, ‘If article 35(A) was tinkered with, there would be nobody in J&K to hold tricolor.'“People are never tired, when it will come to decisions like these, you will see this mass rising and it will be a bigger revolt than Amarnath land row. Probably they cannot handle it then and government of India will be squarely responsible for that,” Abdullah said.The opposition leaders stated that article 35 (A) is to protect people of the state, their rights of existence and to prevent others from coming in to dilute the local culture. “Maharaja Hari Singh introduced state subject laws to protect lands and jobs, primarily to safeguard Jammu from people of neighboring states,” former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah said in a string of tweets, also informing that NC would start the awareness campaign from August 14. “To oppose removal of 35 (A) is not anti-Jammu or anti-Ladakh. Its removal will have grave consequences for people living in Jammu and Ladakh,” he tweeted.CPI (M) leader M Y Tarigami said that credible and democratic voices of the country have to understand implications of this dangerous move for J&K and country as a whole.The opposition leaders urged Mehbooba Mufti to also start a campaign against abrogation of article 35 (A) and travel across the state to aware people about its dangerous consequences. “Mehbooba Mufti is in coalition with BJP and she can put her foot down. She can impress upon them in New Delhi,” said Hasan Mir.The PDPD-BJP government however claims that it is seriously defending the case in the SC. J&K law minister Abdul Haq Khan said that the J&K government was fighting the case in SC with full defense. “We are contesting and defending the Article 35-A will full rigor and defense. We have engaged best constitutional expert of the country, Fali Nariman, to contest the case in SC along with our Advocate General,” Khan told reporters here.