Move beyond law varsity demand, press for J&K’s statehood, Omar’s NC tells BJP

JAMMU: J&K’s governing National Conference (NC) connected Monday urged BJP to determination beyond demands for a National Law University (NLU) successful Jammu and alternatively property the Centre to reconstruct statehood to the Union territory.Surinder Choudhary, lawman main curate successful the Omar Abdullah-led govt, accused BJP of raising the NLU contented arsenic portion of its claims astir favoritism against Jammu portion remaining soundless connected larger concerns.“They (BJP) aftermath up each greeting and commencement shouting that the Omar govt is discriminating against Jammu,” NC’s Choudhary said connected the opening time of the J&K assembly’s 27-day fund league successful Jammu.J&K has nary NLU astatine contiguous but the request for it to beryllium located successful Jammu gained traction aft CM Omar said past twelvemonth that it would travel up successful Kashmir’s Budgam.

Omar has rejected the caller BJP demands, calling the contention “politically motivated” and pointing retired that determination were nary protests successful the Valley erstwhile Jammu was fixed some an IIT and an IIM.Deputy CM Choudhary stressed that J&K faced acold much pressing issues than NLU and accused BJP of abandoning its committedness of restoring statehood. “Why is helium not asking the Centre to fulfil the committedness of statehood,” Choudhary said.

He was referring to Sunil Sharma, BJP person of absorption who joined students’ protests astatine Jammu University implicit the NLU.A legislator from Jammu’s Nowshera, Choudhary rejected allegations of discrimination, arguing the NC govt would not person revived the “Darbar Move” aft 4 years if that was the case.In June 2021, LG Sinha’s medication ended the Darbar Move, a 149-year-old signifier of shifting the spot of govt betwixt Srinagar and Jammu each six months.

Sinha described the strategy arsenic “a large racket”. Before its abolition, implicit 10,000 authorities employees shuttled betwixt the 2 cities doubly a year, boosting commercialized and commerce successful Jammu. The Omar-led govt resumed it this twelvemonth aft demands from Jammu’s traders, who said its suspension had wounded business.Referring to the NLU demand, lawman CM Choudhary flagged “lack of statehood” arsenic the biggest issue, starring to section jobs being taken distant by “outsiders”. “BJP has a wont of sitting connected roads and accusing the govt of discrimination. But they don’t look astatine Jammu University, wherever not a azygous vice-chancellor has been from Jammu. Are our professors from Jammu not susceptible of starring the university? But BJP volition not speech astir it,” Choudhary said.