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JAMMU: J&K CM Omar Abdullah voiced a premix of anticipation and scepticism Tuesday aft Union instrumentality curate Arjun Meghwal said a determination connected restoring statehood to the Union territory would beryllium announced “soon”, citing an assurance by location curate Amit Shah successful Parliament.“One-and-a-half years person passed since an elected govt assumed bureau and we are inactive waiting,” Omar told reporters. “We anticipation we volition not person to hold overmuch longer.”Speaking aft a relation astatine Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre, Meghwal described statehood arsenic “an important” and “very sensitive” question. “When the Union location curate has said successful Parliament that you volition get this right, past you volition get it,” helium said, adding that a process was underway.Omar said patience was wearing thin. “We volition not beryllium satisfied till we get it. The process is underway but it is taking acold excessively long,” helium said, adding that his govt remained successful continuous engagement with Centre.The propulsion comes astir six years aft Centre abrogated Article 370 connected Aug 5, 2019, and divided the erstwhile authorities into 2 UTs — J&K and Ladakh. On Dec 11, 2023, Supreme Court upheld the determination portion urging that J&K’s statehood beryllium restored “as soon arsenic possible”.
Omar, who took bureau connected Oct 16, 2024, has repeatedly raised the issue. On Aug 16 past year, helium wrote to BJP and different parties, portion urging Parliament to bring a measure to reconstruct statehood.“The restoration indispensable not beryllium viewed arsenic a concession,” his missive said, cautioning against a precedent wherever statehood becomes “a discretionary favour”. He said the hold carries implications for the country’s law values and antiauthoritarian ethos, citing the simplification of J&K’s presumption successful 2019 and the prolonged hold for reversal.
