The same day, he informed the parliament that he “worked there as a diplomat for four years” and “traveled the region many times”. “I do not think you would find any majority for it,” he said, referring to autonomy for Kashmir. “I would just like to ask the speaker briefly how he envisages autonomy under his own control, under the administration of the Kashmiris, for this country would certainly depend on the drip of the community. They have nothing to offer economically; they must join India or Pakistan or whatever the solution is. Everything else is an illusion. Even the Kashmiris themselves would not want that solution.”