There wasn't any need for fresh resolution on Art 370: Omar Abdullah
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Srinagar: Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah said that there was no need to bring a fresh resolution of Article 370 since the one passed by the Assembly during its first sitting last year had not been rejected by the Union government, The Indian Express reported.
He said that what had to be done 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 pass the resolution, and it is still holding, which is a big thing," Abdullah told reporters.
He was replying to reporters' query that some members were planning to bring a resolution condemning the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.
Abdullah said that 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", TIE quoted the minister. "We bought a resolution, and the House passed it with majority… The National Conference will not repeat what it has already done."
Further, Abdullah said that all legislators must work together to help the government fulfil its priorities for the public welfare.
He then ruled out outright any chance of an alliance with the BJP, saying there is no scope for such a thing.
"We both have different ideologies, and there is also a difference between heaven and earth in our approach with regard to J&K," he claimed.
The CM and leader of National Conference made the remarks after PDP leader and chief minister of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state Mehbooba Mufti came down on him, accusing him of acting as the "B team of the BJP". She also accused Abdullah of backtracking over the issue of J&K's special status and statehood, TIE reported.
