Separate PM for J&K: Omar says demand constitutional, asks PM Modi to read history
A day after Narendra Modi hit out at Omar Abdullah for his comment that Jammu and Kashmir would one day have a separate Prime Minister and President, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister asked the Prime Minister to read history.
The verbal duel between National Conference leader Omar Abdullah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Article 35A is refusing to die down.
A day after Narendra Modi hit out at Omar Abdullah for his comment that Jammu and Kashmir would one day have a separate Prime Minister and President, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister asked the Prime Minister to read history.
Omar Abdullah said what he has demanded is in the Constitution of the country.
He made the remark while addressing a rally in Pattan of Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir.
The National Conference is not demanding anything new. My demand was the same in Vajpayee government when I was a minister in that government. If then it was not wrong, how it is now? Omar Abdullah asked.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanded the Congress to explain the comment of its ally National Conference.
He says we will take the clock back and replicate the situation before 1953 and there will be two Prime Ministers in India, Kashmir will have its separate PM. The Congress must answer how its ally can say such a thing," the Prime Minister had said at a rally in Hyderabad on Monday.
In response to this, Omar Abdullah took to his Twitter and in a series of tweets thanked the PM for taking his speech to a national platform. "For the record, we don’t need other parties to endorse our position. Dear friends in Congress & other opposition parties. Please don’t hesitate to distance yourselves from my speech of today. In fact, call Modi ji’s bluff by doing exactly that," he tweeted.
It’s not what @JKNC_ wants sir, it’s what the terms of accession guaranteed J&K, it’s what the Constitution of India (the same Constitution you take an oath to uphold) guaranteed J&K. All we ask is what the Constitution gave to J&K. https://t.co/aLHJXacpzO Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) April 1, 2019
On the Kashmir issue against the background of BJP leaders favouring abrogation of Article 370, Omar Abdullah had mentioned about J&K having a separate Prime Minister years ago and restoring it to protect the state's identity.
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