NC puts spotlight back on special status, counters ‘pro-BJP’ talk

SRINAGAR: J&K main minister’s Omar Abdullah’s National Conference (NC) has foregrounded a precocious adopted solution for restoration of peculiar status, seeking to blunt claims that the enactment has jettisoned a halfway contented and is cosying up to BJP.Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar stressed the resolution, passed connected Nov 28 astatine NC’s moving committee -- its highest decision-making assemblage --was a connection to each that the party’s ideological presumption remains unchanged.“In the moving committee meeting, enactment legislators stressed that we indispensable not beryllium seen arsenic giving up connected our governmental docket of restoring the peculiar presumption nether Article 370. The solution reaffirms our committedness to peculiar status.

It reflects the ascendant sentiment wrong the party,” Dar told TOI.The solution states that “the moving committee unanimously reaffirmed its unwavering committedness to the restoration of J&K’s peculiar status”, adding the contented is cardinal to aspirations and dignity of the radical and indispensable beryllium addressed without further delay. “The enactment volition proceed its principled combat for its afloat restoration.”NC besides urged the Centre to instantly reconstruct afloat statehood to J&K, arsenic “promised connected the level of Parliament, repeatedly affirmed successful nationalist domain, and noted by Supreme Court”.

NC’s manifesto for the 2024 polls had vowed to strive for restoration of “Article 370 and statehood arsenic anterior to Aug 5, 2019” -- erstwhile the Centre abrogated the peculiar presumption and turned J&K into a Union territory.On Nov 6 past year, weeks aft NC was voted to office, J&K assembly passed a solution seeking peculiar status. Later, NC was accused by 1 of its ain MPs, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, and absorption PDP of giving up connected Article 370 and concentrating connected “restoration of statehood”.Dar said respective legislators successful the moving committee gathering pushed for protests successful Delhi to property for statehood, citing difficulties they look astatine the crushed level successful getting developmental enactment executed. But the enactment decided to hold astatine this stage. “The enactment expects the Centre to reconstruct statehood arsenic promised successful Supreme Court and Parliament,” Dar said.Another NC functionary, Salman Sagar, underscored concerns astir attempts to nexus the enactment with BJP and the request to antagonistic specified narratives firmly.“Central govt and BJP are 2 antithetic things. As a borderline state, maintaining a moving and cordial narration with Centre is necessary. But that does not mean we are aligned with BJP. CM (Omar) has made it wide we volition ne'er spouse with BJP. He reiterated this successful the moving committee meeting, too. We person decided to situation immoderate communicative that seeks to represent NC arsenic BJP-friendly. We volition combat this communicative war,” Sagar said.