At the same time, party spokesman Rashid Alvi also condemned the assault on Bhushan for the remarks and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's praise for the attackers.
"The talk of referendum is condemnable. Jammu and Kashmir is part of India and there can be no second thought...," he said.
Noting that there have been regular elections in the densitive border state, he said people have brought to power governments of different parties as per their own will.
On the attack on Bhushan, the spokesman said that it was not proper for anyone to take the law in their hand. He said that the support of Thackeray to the attackers was not in the interest of the country and democracy.
Alvi sought to ignore Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal's contention that the government was attempting to divert attention from the core issue of Lokpal by raising the matter of Bhushan's remarks on Kashmir.
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