From statehood to land rights, J&K lost everything under BJP rule: Omar

Jammu and Kashmir lost everything - from statehood to identity to land rights - over the past 10 years of BJP rule, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said on Saturday, as he questioned the ruling party over its claims of finishing terrorism in the Union territory.

Targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Abdullah said the BJP leader should explain why his party was blaming the NC and Congress for terrorism in J-K while he was blaming Pakistan in the rest of the country.

He also hit out at the BJP for its failure to keep the promises made to the people of J-K following the abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to the region and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two Union territories in August 2019.

"In the 2014 Assembly elections, when I came in front of you, we had our own state and Ladakh was our part. We had our own flag, constitution, our identity, our existence, rights on land, water, hills and forests.