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Senior BJP leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley have hit out at National Conference leader Omar Abdullah’s alleged remarks on the revival of Wazir-e-Azam-and Sadar-e-Riyasat posts in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mr Jaitley said, Mr Abdulla’s remarks only intended to create a separatists psyche.
In a Facebook post titled Ek Desh Mein Do Vidhan, Do Pradhan, Mr Jailtey said, the new India will never allow any Government to commit such blunders. He also said the two mainstream parties in Kashmir are increasingly losing their identity.
He said, the separatists and the terrorists want a part of the State to segregate from India and the country will never accept this.
Meanwhile National Conference chief Omar Abdullah Tuesday toughened his stand regarding his party’s demand for a separate Prime Minister for Jammu and Kashmir and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “read history”. It is the Constitution, he said, which gives special status to the state and allows it a ”Sadr-e-Riyasat” and “Wazir-e-Azam” – posts equivalent to the president and the prime minister.
Addressing an election rally at Pattan in Baramulla district, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir pitched for greater autonomy. The state, he said, had its prime minister and Sadr-e-Reysat (head of state) till 1965.
Mr Abdullah’s statement yesterday — that Jammu and Kashmir had bargained for a separate Prime Minister and President and hopefully they will have it – drew a furious response from the BJP. PM Modi, his ministers and party leaders attacked not just Mr Abdullah but also his alliance partner, the Congress.
Mr Abdullah today said he has not asked for anything more than what was already guaranteed by the Constitution.
“Mr Modi, Please read the history and see under what circumstances the state became part of India,” Mr Abdullah said today. “There is nothing new in what I said yesterday about prime minister and Sadr-e-Riyasat of the state. It is recorded in our constitution and it is in the same constitution on which Mr Modi is taking oath,” he added.
“It is the constitution which talks about J&K’s map, its flag and J&K’s own constitution. And according that constitution, we have our own prime minister and Sadr-e-Riyasat,” said Mr Abdullah.