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| Omar accepts Modi's challenge on Article 370; says fix time, venue, date | | Addresses public meeting at Hazaratbal | | ET Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 5: Irked over the Narendra Modi's remark over statement on the Article 370, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today challenged him to fix the time, date and venue to discuss the efficacy and essentiality of Article 370. "We are ready to talk to anyone on the subject even if you select Ahmadabad in Gujarat as a venue for the same", he asserted and said that many people in India who have held and are holding high offices are equally ignorant about the nature, importance and essentiality of Article 370. "Main Hairaan Hota Hun Jab Yeh Log Jinhone Article 370 Pada Bi Nahi Hai Iske Bara Me Bolte Hain" (He is astonished when he hears some people talking about Article 370 who have not even properly and completely read this Article), he said. "They connect domicile rights of the people of the State, land grant issues and other similar matters to the Article 370 which has nothing to do with these matters", he said maintaining that these leaders should know that Article 370 governs the relations of the State with the Union of India.
Omar Abdullah asked Narendra Modi not to talk of Gujjar of Jammu and Kashmir whose development and prosperity is a focused concern of the State and they enjoy Schedule Tribe status here. "You should instead be concerned about the Gujjar of Rajasthan who are struggling for Tribal status and are far behind in the development process" he told Modi advising him to first know whether Muharram is the month of mourning or the occasion of celebrations (Jeshans) and then talk of Shias of Jammu and Kashmir. He said and referred to the calendar of celebrations issued in Gujarat during the Muharram as also congratulating the Muslims.
Omar Abdullah also expressed surprise over Modi for forgetting Kashmiri Pandits. The Chief Minister said Kashmiri Pandits are the integral part of Kashmir and without them Kashmiriyat is incomplete. The Chief Minister criticized those leaders in the state who change their politics on seeing the direction and the way towards which the wind blows. He said these leaders have no courage to face the reality and take decisions for safeguarding the interests of the people and the State like that of Sher-i-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah who took even hardest decisions for the people's cause and got these approved by the masses. Chief Minister said that Indira-Sheikh Accord was a step in this direction when the great leader Sheikh Moh ammad Abdullah, the true friend of the people and the guardian of their interests, observed that a sea change has taken place on global spectrum, the map of the sub-continent has been redrafted and three wars fought between India and Pakistan on Kashmir resulted only blood-shed and destruction, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah saw only options to seek protection, honour and political dignity of the people of the State by talking to India. |
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