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| ‘Centre formed PDP to counter NC’s greater autonomy move’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 14: A week after announcing that the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A) is only for Lok Sabha elections, former chief minister and vice-president of the National Conference Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) was formed by the then Union Government to counter NC’s greater autonomy move.
Although Omar Abdullah avoided directly naming the PDP, he said that the then-NDA government led by the BJP formed a political party when the NC regime in J&K passed the greater autonomy resolution.
Omar Abdullah was addressing a public meeting at Tanmarg which is the assembly constituency of veteran politician and one of the founders of the PDP Ghulam Hassan Mir. “To counter NC’s greater autonomy move the then Union Government formed a regional party and your former MLA was at the forefront in the formation of the same regional party”, Omar said with an obvious reference toward Ghulam Hassan Mir.
Notably, J&K Legislative Assembly passed the much-publicized greater autonomy resolution on June 26, 2000, urging that the pre-1953 constitutional position in the erstwhile State be restored.
While the greater autonomy resolution was passed in June 2000, the PDP was formed on July 28, 1999, a year before the resolution was rejected by the Union Cabinet.
On July 4, 2000, the then Union Cabinet unanimously rejected the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly resolution seeking to restore the pre-1953 constitutional position in the state as it felt that acceptance of the resolution would set the clock back and reverse the natural process of harmonising the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir with the integrity of the nation. |
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