Srinagar:
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on the finish of two days of hectic political battle within the meeting, mentioned right this moment that had the roadmap of Atal Bihari Vajpayee been adopted, the state would have by no means been decreased to a Union Territory.
Talking throughout the obituary references within the meeting, Mr Abdullah recalled that in 2000, when the meeting handed a decision for larger autonomy to J&Okay which New Delhi had rejected throughout Vajpayee’s prime ministership, “Vajpayee realised his mistake and he designated the then regulation minister to have interaction in a dialogue with the state authorities on the topic. However, as windfall would have it, he handed away and that was it.”
Recalling that it was Vajpayee who opened roads to attach the folks of divided elements of J&Okay, he mentioned the motive was to attach folks and the civil society “so {that a} private relationship is created”.
“However sadly, the trail and the roadmap proven by Vajpayee have been left halfway and as an alternative of connecting folks, distances are being created… If Vajpayee’s roadmap on J&Okay would have been applied and adopted, we’d not have been the place we’re at current,” he added.
Vajpayee, he added, was an amazing visionary, a towering persona who began the Lahore bus and went to Minar-e-Pakistan.
His slogan of ‘Insaniyat, (humanity), Jamhuriyat (Democracy) and Kashmiriyat (identification of the Kashmiri folks)’ was filled with imaginative and prescient and a mirrored image of his statesmanship.
“Maybe, he was the primary and final chief who raised this slogan”, he mentioned.