Naveed Ul Haq Ganaiee<\/p>\n
Budgam, Oct 08 (KNO): Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Chaudhary on Tuesday strongly reacted to remarks made by Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sunil Sharma, who accused Omar Abdullah of seeking statehood to consolidate power and target innocent civilians in Kashmir.<\/p>\n
Talking to media persons at Seerbagh Shalina, Chaudhary, as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said, \u201cAsk the LoP why he didn\u2019t stop the Machail Mata Yatra when there was a weather high alert and people were killed there. It was his Padder constituency. Why didn\u2019t he stop the Yatra? Don\u2019t raise a finger on my leader. Come and debate with me.”<\/p>\n
The Deputy CM questioned Sharma\u2019s silence over key issues affecting Jammu: \u201cWhat do you want to show? You are not standing with the people of the Jammu division, who gave you 28 seats. Today, Jammu is suffering due to floods. Bridges and houses have collapsed, roads are damaged, and crops and apples are destroyed. Why don\u2019t you speak about that? Did you give any compensation to the affected people?\u201d<\/p>\n
Chaudhary further added, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you speak about unemployed farmers? Why didn\u2019t you resolve the issue of daily wagers in the last 11 years? Why don\u2019t you speak for Jammu? It\u2019s all drama. The LoP is a leader of reels, not of the ground. NC leaders are among the people, in panchayats, and constantly engaging with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the upcoming by-elections, the Deputy CM said the National Conference is fully prepared and confident of victory. \u201cWe are ready for Budgam and Nagrota by-elections and will win both seats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Accusing the BJP of \u201cpolitical drama,\u201d Chaudhary said, \u201cIf they truly sympathised with Jammu and Kashmir, they wouldn\u2019t have scrapped statehood or reduced us to a Union Territory. Give us statehood back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding to the BJP\u2019s criticism of the NC\u2019s manifesto, which includes promises of free electricity, 12 gas cylinders, and employment opportunities, he said, \u201cDid the unemployed youth take birth in the last one year? This unemployment crisis has been created over the past 11 years by the BJP, PDP, and six years of LG administration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chaudhary added, \u201cWe are not selected or appointed, but elected by the hearts of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. We have promised statehood, and we will fulfil that promise. The LG should show sympathy towards the people. Unemployed youth deserve opportunities. And if Omar Abdullah wants to deliver, give us the statehood back so that we can work for our people.\u201d (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Naveed Ul Haq Ganaiee Budgam, Oct 08 (KNO): Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Chaudhary on Tuesday strongly reacted to remarks made by Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sunil Sharma, who accused Omar Abdullah of seeking statehood to consolidate power and target innocent civilians in Kashmir. Talking to media persons at Seerbagh Shalina, Chaudhary, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793,"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-792","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\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}