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Omar Wants To Move On?
3/18/2021 12:09:07 AM
National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah extending support to Aam Aadmi Party is an indication that the former J&K chief minister wants to forget the past and move ahead.
The AAP was the first party that had extended support to Centre’s move to scrap J&K’s special status and bifurcate it into two union territories. Omar siding with the party which opposed the so-called core issue of NC is a hint that “let’s bury the hatchet” and move ahead.
The AAP is opposing the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seeks to give more powers to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.
“In spite of AAP’s support for the dismemberment & downgrading of J&K in 2019, we still condemn this assault on the powers of the elected government of Delhi. Delhi deserves to be a full state with all powers exercised by the elected government & not a nominated LG,” Omar had tweeted after the Bill was presented in the Lok Sabha.
Soon after Omar was released from detention last year he had dropped enough hints about him and his party having accepted the change in J&K’s status-quo.
But after facing little resentment by a few leaders, he took a U-turn.
In the beginning he had spoken about restoration of J&K’s statehood only. But after his close aide Aga Ruhullah, who was the NC chief spokesman, resigned from the party post, Omar took his words back and joined the chorus.
He silently watched the formation of Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration—an amalgam of Kashmir centric parties— and also its debacle. The so-called united front had come into existence to challenge August 5, 2019 decisions of the Centre. But it crumbled under its own weight.
Omar also stopped his father NC president Dr Farooq Abdullah from participating actively in the PAGD activities and asked him to focus on National Conference rather than strengthening the conglomerate that had come into existence at the behest of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti, who wanted to avenge the humiliation she faced due to her party getting split after BJP pulled out from the coalition led by her in J&K in June 2018.
Since the day Omar has been released he has stayed away from controversies and has dropped enough hints about there being no possibility about clock getting reversed.
He has not gone overboard and has even stopped his father from poking his nose into the issues that can put NC in trouble.
It appears that Omar wants to inch closer to New Delhi and seems in no mood to annoy the people sitting in the national capital.
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