After a disrupted Assembly session, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah says the resolution seeking restoration of full statehood contains no anti-national language and urged the BJP to allow debate.
Omar Abdullah challenged the BJP to identify any anti-national wording in the statehood resolution.
Omar accused BJP lawmakers of blocking discussion and said their actions exposed opposition to restoring statehood.
The resolution’s stated intent is to urge the central government to restore full statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah moved a resolution in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly asking the Government of India to restore the union territory's full statehood. The Assembly session turned disruptive after the resolution was tabled.
Omar told reporters that demanding restoration of statehood is not an anti-national act. He challenged the BJP to point out a single anti-national word in the resolution, saying the text contains no unconstitutional language.
How he distinguishes the resolutions
The Chief Minister accused the BJP of staging a theatrical protest to avoid a substantive discussion. He said the Leader of the Opposition and BJP members opposed the statehood resolution, and he highlighted that 29 BJP MLAs, in his view, opposed restoring statehood. Omar said the BJP ''got exposed'' by their conduct and argued that permitting debate would have been preferable.
Constitutional and political framing
Omar asserted there is nothing unconstitutional in the resolution. He framed the item as a formal request to the central government to restore full statehood, and he urged that it should have been allowed to proceed to discussion in the Assembly.
The report records Omar Abdullah's challenge to the BJP, his insistence that the resolution contains no anti-national language, his distinction between statehood and autonomy resolutions, and his claim that BJP MLAs opposed statehood and prevented discussion in the Assembly.
The motion to restore full statehood to Jammu and Kashmir was presented by the Chief Minister, generated disruption in the Assembly, and left political differences over the issue publicly visible. Omar frames the resolution as lawful and narrowly focused on urging the Centre to act.
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