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| What Omar, Farooq were doing in visitors' gallery of Legislative Council on March 11, 2004? | | BJP puts NC leadership in tight-spot on debate on Article 370 | | E T Report
jammu, Dec 5: As debate over article 370 has snowballed into a big political conspiracy, BJP seems to be have successfully trapped Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in its net by reminding Chief Minister of March 11, 2004 episode.
Senior BJP leader Dr Nirmal Singh has put a very genuine question before Omar Abdullah about his and his father Dr Farooq Abdullah's role when debate on 'The Jammu and Kashmir Permanent Resident (Disqualification) Bill 2004 was going on in Upper House'.
It was reported and factually correct that Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, who was acting president of National Conference at that time, were sitting in the gallery of the Legislative Council so that their members in the Upper House would vote jointly to get the controversial bill passed. The then chairman of the Legislative Council Abdul Rashid Dar, who belonged to National Conference, had played very calculated game and saved the then coalition Government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed by adjoining the Legislative Council sine die without conducting voting.
Action of the then Chairman had infuriated NC leaders and they lost their patience. Even Dr Farooq Abdullah had passed some remarks against Abdul Rashid Dar for not allowing voting on the Bill.
Dr Nirmal Singh has again corner NC leadership by recalling that episode. "What Omar Abdullah and his father Dr Farooq Abdullah were doing in the visitors' gallery of Legislative Council on March 11, 2004 when debate on 'The Jammu and Kashmir Permanent Resident (Disqualification) Bill 2004 was going on in Upper House?', he asked and added that the father-son duo were present in the visitor gallery of the Legislative Council to exert pressure on their party members to get the controversial and anti-women Bill passed to debar women of Jammu and Kashmir, who married outside the state, of their inheritance rights. "March 11, 2004 Legislative Council record is sufficient enough to expose double standard of National Conference leadership", he said and added that National Conference leadership had tried to get that controversial Bill passed but it was all due to pressure of BJP that the Bill was not passed.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, while reacting to BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, had asserted that Gujarat Chief Minister was ill-informed about rights of women under Article 370. But the BJP by reminding the March 11, 2004 episode has exposed that NC leadership had tried to snatch citizenship rights from women. |
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