Omar blames Mehbooba for NIA summons to Mirwaiz

Srinagar, Apr 6: National Conference (NC) Vice President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday blamed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti for “NIA trap” against Hurriyat (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Omar also reiterated demand for revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) the way it was revoked in Arunachal Pradesh.
Talking to reporters after addressing an election rally at Kupwara, Omar said that NIA filed an FIR against Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in 2017 when Mehbooba Mufti was Chief Minister and so she (Mehbooba) “alone is responsible” for the notices NIA is sending to Mirwaiz.
Saying that Article 370 has been worst hit by implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Omar dared Mehbooba Mufti to prove that National Conference “has even once extended such a law to the state which has damaged Article 370 anytime in any way.”
Omar said that PDP and Sajad Lone led Peoples Conference “facilitated the entry” of BJP in J&K.
“PDP and PC pushed the state towards destruction by providing a platform to RSS-BJP in the state. Today if Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley are explicitly talking against the special constitutional position of our state, who should we hold responsible for it? Who provided them with space in our state? Who got them here in our State? It is PDP and PC who are answerable to people for opening flood gates of the state to BJP-RSS,” he said.
“Had these parties not allied with them, the people of the state would not have been facing innumerable torments since 2014,” he said.
Cautioning the people about the theatrics and false propaganda unleashed by PDP-PC combine, Omar said, “Both Mehbooba Mufti and Sajad Gani Lone blindfolded their eyes when they were running the government with BJP.”
“During the tumultuous year of 2016, why didn’t the duo raised such qualms for Kashmiris? Why are they doing it now? When Art-370, Art 35- A were being subjected to unrelenting attacks why didn’t Sajad impress upon his elder brother PM Modi to refrain from targeting the special status of the state? Why didn’t he ask his elder brother to stop the oppression of Kashmiris in 2016? When our children, old and young were being blinded, why didn’t he use his relationship with Modi to bring respite to the people of Kashmir?” Omar said.