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J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected Monday (December 15, 2025) said the probe agencies should enactment against those BJP legislators who were allegedly interfering successful the powerfulness projects of nationalist value successful the Chenab Valley’s Kishtwar district.
Referring to the caller allegations of governmental interference by the Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL), constructing the 850- Megawatt Ratle Hydroelectric Project successful J&K’s Kishtwar, Mr. Abdullah said, “It should beryllium viewed seriously. These are institutions of nationalist value and nary interference should beryllium allowed. Such projects are not conscionable for J&K but the full country.”
Mr. Abdullah said determination were allegations of interference against an Opposition legislator successful this circumstantial lawsuit but world was 2 Opposition legislators were progressive successful interfering successful projects. Kishtwar constituency is represented by a BJP MLA.
“If allegations were against our Minister, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) would person raided him. Investigating agencies should enactment successful specified cases,” Mr. Abdullah said.
He besides lamented that the Lieutenant Governor medication has not handed implicit the powerfulness corporations to the elected authorities truthful far. “I americium the powerfulness Minister but powerfulness corporations are yet to beryllium handed implicit to the elected government,” the J&K Chief Minister added.
A fewer days ago, the MEIL had threatened to propulsion retired from the project. It alleged the workers of the task were nether “a batch of pressure” and “locals and politicians were acting successful undemocratic mode and pressuring to prosecute locals successful spite of not having immoderate vacancy”.
The Ratle task is simply a tally of stream strategy located connected River Chenab astatine colony Drabshalla, Kishtwar. The task was approved successful 2021 astatine a full outgo of ₹5281.94 crores. The scheduled commissioning day is acceptable for May 2026.
Meanwhile, Harpal Singh, Joint Chief Operating Officer of the MIEL, connected Monday wrote a missive to the Deputy Commissioner, Kishtwar, and demanded a First Information Report (FIR) against societal media influencer Asif Iqbal Naik implicit “deliberately publishing false, defamatory, misleading, and threatening content” online.
“Our officer, Syed Burhan Andrabi, is being targeted. The accused explicitly named our serviceman and his statements magnitude to gross misrepresentation of authorities authority, calculated to mislead the nationalist and incite hostility against MEIL officials,” Mr. Singh said, successful the letter.
The MIEL serviceman said the contented of Mr. Naik was “clearly intended to intimidate MEIL officers, make fearfulness and unit astatine the task site, and disrupt the lawful execution of a strategical infrastructure project”.
“The video is being wide circulated, and inflammatory comments posted by viewers person further aggravated the situation, creating a wide and contiguous menace to safety, nationalist order, and workplace harmony. In presumption of the gravity of the matter, we humbly commune that your bully bureau whitethorn beryllium pleased to registry an FIR against Mr. Asif Iqbal Naik,” Mr. Singh said.
The MIEL serviceman has sought an probe into the matter. “Arrest, if warranted, and prosecute the accused strictly successful accordance with the law. Take immoderate different enactment deemed acceptable successful the involvement of justice, nationalist safety, and extortion of the lawful execution of a nationalist project,” the MIEL missive said.
