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Mumbai- Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has mentioned it was “a matter of appreciable disgrace” that the Supreme Courtroom needed to difficulty a directive about elections in Jammu and Kashmir reasonably than the Election Fee of India.
The Nationwide Convention chief additionally mentioned the view that Article 370 was on the root of all issues of Jammu and Kashmir was not appropriate, and terrorist assaults at the moment are being reported in areas which have been earlier freed from terrorism, specifically the hills of Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch.
Extra Kashmiri Pandits have been killed in focused assaults within the Valley through the tenure of the current authorities than previously, he claimed whereas talking at ABP Community’s `Concepts of India’ Summit 3.0 right here on Saturday.
“What’s the BJP and what’s the Authorities of India going to do concerning the deadline the Supreme Courtroom has set,” Abdullah requested, noting the courtroom has mentioned the meeting elections must be held in Jammu and Kashmir by the top of September 2024.
“It’s a matter of appreciable disgrace that elections in Jammu and Kashmir, reasonably than being introduced by the Election Fee or inspired by the Authorities of India, needed to be introduced by the Supreme Courtroom,” Abdullah mentioned.
In December final yr, the Supreme Courtroom upheld the Centre’s resolution to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given a particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, however directed restoration of statehood “on the earliest”. Meeting elections must be held by September 30, 2024, it mentioned.
Abdullah additionally mentioned that terror assaults on Kashmiri Pandits within the Valley is an everyday prevalence.
Regardless of the abrogation of Article 370, pockets of assist for separatists live on and hardly every week or two cross with no terrorist assault, he mentioned.
Extra Kashmiri Pandits have been killed in focused assaults underneath the current (Union) authorities than underneath earlier dispensations, he claimed.
The previous CM additionally claimed that the Kashmiri Pandits, whom his authorities had resettled within the Valley with authorities jobs, at the moment are pleading that they be allowed to maneuver again to Jammu.
“This authorities has not returned Kashmiri Pandits their sense of safety. Extra Kashmiri Pandits need to go away Kashmir in the present day than (those that) needed to 5 or ten years in the past,” Abdullah added.
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