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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has accused the Centre of betraying some Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir by failing to fulfil its promises and deepening mistrust done delays successful restoring Statehood.
Speaking astatine the motorboat of elder writer and writer Harinder Baweja's latest book, "They Will Shoot You, Madam: My beingness done conflict" connected Sunday (September 28, 2025), Mr. Abdullah said the authorities had failed to travel done connected its ain roadmap, archetypal for Jammu and Kashmir and present for Ladakh, alleging that the second was misled with "impossible" assurances.
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"When you wanted them (Ladakh) to enactment successful Hill Council elections, you promised them the Sixth Schedule. Everyone knew that giving the Sixth Schedule to Ladakh was astir impossible. A portion that shares frontiers with China connected 1 broadside and Pakistan connected the different requires a sizeable defence presence, which the Sixth Schedule makes impossible. Yet, you made promises to get electoral participation,” helium stated.
The 55-year-old besides criticised the abrupt displacement successful the stance towards Ladakhi leaders, particularly climate activistic Sonam Wangchuk.
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“A man who, until yesterday, was praising the Prime Minister arsenic an biology warrior and thanking him profusely for 2019 for fulfilling the dreams of Ladakhis by giving UT status... cipher recovered responsibility with him then. Today, suddenly, we find a Pakistani connection. Two days ago, determination was none. Where did it travel from?” helium asked.
The protests successful enactment of the request for Statehood and inclusion of Ladakh successful the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution took a convulsive crook connected September 24, leaving 4 radical dormant and galore injured.
Following the incident, Mr. Wangchuk, who has been among those starring the protest, was detained nether the National Security Act (NSA). On Jammu and Kashmir's request for restoring Statehood, Mr. Abdullah accused the Central Government of failing to honour its ain commitments.
“You told america it was a three-stage process — archetypal delimitation, past elections, and yet Statehood. The archetypal 2 person been completed, but the 3rd has gone nowhere. And past you wonderment wherefore determination is simply a spot deficit,” helium said.
Mr. Abdullah cautioned that the spot shortage was eroding nationalist faith, contempt the unprecedented information of Jammu and Kashmir residents successful caller polls — some Parliament and Assembly.
He besides pointed to the caller Supreme Court remarks connected Statehood, wherever petitioners urging the Centre to fulfil its committedness of restoring Jammu and Kashmir’s presumption were told to see “ground realities” specified arsenic the Pahalgam panic attack.
Mr. Abdullah said it was “deeply distressing” that the substance seemed to beryllium tied to events crossed the border, asking, “Does Pakistan present determine whether Jammu & Kashmir should person Statehood?” "Because each clip we travel adjacent to Statehood, thing similar Pahalgam volition hap and again, we volition beryllium sent back," helium said, asserting that Statehood cannot beryllium utilized arsenic a “carrot” for bully behaviour.
Stressing that the contented is not astir Kashmir — the onshore — but astir "Kashmiri" — the people, Mr. Abdullah said the radical privation to consciousness a genuine consciousness of ownership again.
"We marque that tiny quality successful the nomenclature, and you marque a immense quality connected the land... And they (the people) person shown it to you clip and again implicit the past 2 years, 3 years. They privation to beryllium owned, they privation to beryllium listened to, they privation to beryllium respected," helium said.
The sheet treatment was besides joined by erstwhile Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
"They Will Shoot You, Madam", published by Roli Books, charts Baweja's travel of venturing heavy into struggle zones, bringing to airy stories from hard terrains — from the bloodied streets of Punjab to the volatile battleground of Jammu and Kashmir, and onwards to Pakistan and ravaged Afghanistan.
