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Omar twisting facts, debate on Article 370 to shift glare from governance 12/5/2013 11:43:04 PM Early Times Report jammu, Dec 5: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been charged by PDP and BJP of deliberately raking up the debate on Article 370 to shift the focus of state debate from governance. He has probably taken a cue from the elections of the four states where local issues and governance mattered most and this is some thing which Omar Abdullah knows doesn't work in his favour. Article 370 has become an emotive issue and the same was emphatically stated by BJP president Rajnath Singh. BJP Prime Ministerial candidate who only stated that there should atleast be a debate on this Articleicle, had also said it had become a pill to absolve sins of misgovernance like starting a debate on secularism to shift the focus on real issues that matter most to the general public. Omar had been raising the pitch for the same for quite some time, even before Narindra Modi was made the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party. Addressing a function in June when Prime Minister along with the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi had come to the state in June for starting rail service, Omar had said the Article 370 would be abrogated over their dead bodies. It was clear sign of the rhetoric he would be using in the days to come, despite the fact that the Prime Minister sharing the same dias didn't utter a word in this regard. And six-month after this statement he has been using the same rhetoric at every stage to clearly divert the attention of the public from issues of corruption, vision and misgovernance. Omar should have atleast welcomed the statement of Modi and Rajnath Singh who said let there be a debate which was a sort of climb down from the higher pedestal of abrogating this Article. Had Omar been sincere in this regard, he should have started a debate in a rational and logical manner rather than hitting out at Modi with his tweets for which strong exception was taken by senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley .   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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