SRINAGAR: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah blamed Sunday communal hatred for the recent violence in Bengal’s Murshidabad district, sparked by protests against the Waqf Act. The real threat to India comes not from China or Pakistan but from those spreading religious hatred, he said without naming anyone.
“Didn’t you see how the bulldozers were run? How they demolished mosques, schools, houses of the community. What was their fault?” Abdullah said in Jammu after addressing a rally. “The Supreme Court had banned using bulldozers. How can they use it? Does it mean the law is different for them and me?”
Abdullah refused comments on former RAW chief AS Dulat’s forthcoming book “The Chief Minister and the Spy”, which claims the NC president secretly supported the revocation of Article 370 in 2019, although he publicly denounced it as a betrayal. “I don’t want to talk about Dulat or his book,” he said.
Rejecting speculation about a split in NC, Abdullah said reports that eight to 10 party MLAs were planning to defect were false. “No one is leaving the party. Instead, it is BJP that will go,” he said. “BJP lied about having their own CM in J&K. Where is their CM?”
Reflecting on the abrogation of Article 370, Abdullah said some people in Jammu had celebrated without realising that the Dogra Maharaja had enacted special status laws in 1927 to protect local jobs and land. “After the abrogation, all jobs are going to outsiders who don’t know anything about J&K villages or topography,” he said.
He also accused Centre of keeping J&K without an elected govt since PDP-BJP coalition ended in June 2018. “But by the grace of god an elected govt has now been formed in J&K (after assembly elections in Sept-Oct 2024),” he said. “You see a huge rush in the civil secretariat after the elected govt has taken over. It shows you people are real rulers.”
Abdullah said nothing was done in J&K during the presidential rule (2018-2024), yet BJP is demanding accountability for just six months of CM Omar Abdullah’s govt.
“Didn’t you see how the bulldozers were run? How they demolished mosques, schools, houses of the community. What was their fault?” Abdullah said in Jammu after addressing a rally. “The Supreme Court had banned using bulldozers. How can they use it? Does it mean the law is different for them and me?”
Abdullah refused comments on former RAW chief AS Dulat’s forthcoming book “The Chief Minister and the Spy”, which claims the NC president secretly supported the revocation of Article 370 in 2019, although he publicly denounced it as a betrayal. “I don’t want to talk about Dulat or his book,” he said.
Rejecting speculation about a split in NC, Abdullah said reports that eight to 10 party MLAs were planning to defect were false. “No one is leaving the party. Instead, it is BJP that will go,” he said. “BJP lied about having their own CM in J&K. Where is their CM?”
Reflecting on the abrogation of Article 370, Abdullah said some people in Jammu had celebrated without realising that the Dogra Maharaja had enacted special status laws in 1927 to protect local jobs and land. “After the abrogation, all jobs are going to outsiders who don’t know anything about J&K villages or topography,” he said.
He also accused Centre of keeping J&K without an elected govt since PDP-BJP coalition ended in June 2018. “But by the grace of god an elected govt has now been formed in J&K (after assembly elections in Sept-Oct 2024),” he said. “You see a huge rush in the civil secretariat after the elected govt has taken over. It shows you people are real rulers.”
Abdullah said nothing was done in J&K during the presidential rule (2018-2024), yet BJP is demanding accountability for just six months of CM Omar Abdullah’s govt.
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