Srinagar: National Conference leader and former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for allegedly creating new political parties in the Valley to ensure a majority in the legislative assembly.
Abdullah said that the saffron party was doing so to pass a resolution in favour of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status and its bifurcation into union territories.
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While addressing a party convention in Bandipora district in north Kashmir, the NC leader said that the BJP knows that it will fall short of the majority in the House on its own whenever elections are held.
"They want to use a majority in the assembly to bring a resolution that will undo the earlier resolution. Then they will go to the Supreme Court and tell it that the case filed (by NC Lok Sabha members) against abrogation (of Article 370) is false as people are satisfied. The Supreme Court will have no option but to throw out the case, Abdullah said.
"The BJP knows it won't get any seats from Kashmir...That's why new parties are being created to shore up a majority. The PAGD was formed to ensure that the BJP does not get a majority," he added.
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Furthermore, the Kashmir leader also said that BJP is now focused on showing the world, through legislative assembly, that its decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir is acceptable to people of the Valley.
He also alleged that the District Development Council elections were announced in Kashmir with the aim to break the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD).
He said the BJP is actively pursuing the resolution route to erase the previous resolution passed by the assembly 21 years ago.