Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP of the Sharad Pawar faction Supriya Sule on Tuesday demanded that the Centre hold assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and restore its statehood at the earliest, reported the PTI.

Supriya Sule raised the issue during a debate in the Lok Sabha on the two bills to extend the provisions of the women's reservation law to the Union Territories of Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, the news agency reported.