{"id":24939,"date":"2026-07-12T00:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=24939"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:57:37","slug":"produce-evidence-or-apologise-bjp-tells-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/produce-evidence-or-apologise-bjp-tells-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"Produce evidence or apologise, BJP tells Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Terms cash-for-MLA allegation baseless, politically motivated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jammu, Jul 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to either produce evidence of BJP offering cash to MLAs for defections or tender an unconditional public apology for what it termed a \u201cbaseless and irresponsible\u201d statement.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Jammu, BJP MLA R.S. Pathania, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), described the Chief Minister\u2019s allegation as \u201cbaseless, irresponsible, and politically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Omar Abdullah has evidence, he should place it before the competent investigating agencies. If he does not, he must tender an unconditional and unqualified public apology. Otherwise, the BJP will be constrained to initiate appropriate criminal and legal proceedings against him,\u201d Pathania said.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned why neither the alleged recipient nor the Chief Minister approached the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), or any other investigating agency if an attempt to bribe an elected representative had indeed taken place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho allegedly made the offer? Which BJP office-bearer was involved? Which NC legislator was approached? When and where did the alleged incident occur? If the allegation is true, why was no FIR registered?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Pathania said allegations of attempts\u00a0 to purchase elected representatives strike at the very foundation of parliamentary democracy and such things cannot be reduced to political rhetoric or sensationalism without credible evidence.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that instead of addressing governance-related concerns and criticism from within the ruling party over the functioning of the government, the Chief Minister had chosen \u201cdiversionary politics\u201d by levelling unsubstantiated allegations against the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>Pathania asserted that the BJP remains committed to constitutional values and democratic accountability and would vigorously defend its reputation against what he described as \u201cfalse and malicious allegations.\u201d (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terms cash-for-MLA allegation baseless, politically motivated Jammu, Jul 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to either produce evidence of BJP offering cash to MLAs for defections or tender an unconditional public apology for what it termed a \u201cbaseless and irresponsible\u201d statement. Addressing a press conference in Jammu, BJP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24941,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions\/24941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}