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Article 370: Omar Abdullah rules out another resolution

“We bought a resolution and the House passed it with majority… The National Conference will not repeat what it has already done,’’ he said

J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said there was no need to bring another resolution on Article 370 as the one passed by the Assembly during its first sitting last year had not been rejected by the Central Government.

“What we have to do was done in the first (Assembly) session (on November 6, 2024). The resolution is still holding after being passed by the House. The PDP and others helped us in passing the resolution and it is still holding is a big thing,” Abdullah told reporters outside the Assembly here when asked about some members planning to bring a resolution condemning the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.

He said some people thought that any resolution on J&K’s special status would “outrightly get rejected by the Central Government”, but “the fact of the matter is that it is still holding and so there is no need to talk further on this’’. “We bought a resolution and the House passed it with majority… The National Conference will not repeat what it has already done,’’ he said.

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The CM said all legislators need to work together to help the government fulfil its priorities for public welfare. He also ruled out alliance with BJP and said there is no scope for such a thing. “We both have different ideologies and there is also a difference of heaven and earth in our approach with regard to J&K,” he said.

The CM’s remarks came amid his criticism by PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti, who accused him of acting as the “B team of the BJP and backtracking over the issue of J&K’s special status and statehood”.

With agencies inputs

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