Resolution on special status opens, not shuts, doors: J&K CM Omar Abdullah
Omar Abdullah on Friday said the National Conference resolution on the restoration of special status passed by the Assembly is historic and expands our options rather than confining them.
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Abdullah spoke on the final day of the first 5-day assembly session in Srinagar, when opposition BJP members staged a walkout in protest of the NC resolution and several BJP members were escorted out of the house. The BJP members protested by holding a parallel assembly on the assembly complex's grounds, where all members spoke out against the ruling regime and the resolution voted by voice vote and show of hands earlier in the session. «Chaos disallows accountability of the treasury benches and they always like it and those who trigger the chaos are running away from their responsibility,» Abdullah said.
The J&K chief minister underlined that the decisions made on August 5, 2019, were unilateral and that no one was consulted, and that the resolution to restore special status was draughted in this manner to ensure that the central government did not reject it instantly. «There is something in this resolution that the Prime Minister, Home Minister, and other senior politicians are still using to target us. „If this resolution was weak and a compromise, they would not have mentioned it,“ Abdullah stated.
Abdullah stated that this resolution is «historic» since it opens rather than
