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Several Opposition parties, including Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), J&K Apni Party, Awami Ittehad Party, J&K Peoples Conference and an NC Member of Parliament connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) questioned the ruling National Conference’s (NC) determination to clasp a protest successful New Delhi implicit Statehood and law guarantees.
“The Dachigam gathering of ruling NC legislators was being projected arsenic thing significant. It isn’t. The NC doesn’t person a past of astonishing Delhi. It has a past of disappointing Kashmiris. We person seen this publication earlier and determination is small crushed to expect a antithetic ending this time,” said PDP person Yasir Reshi.
Mr. Reshi said people reposed their religion successful NC leaders successful 1977 and successful 1996 and gave it a wide mandate. “However, the NC chose governmental endurance implicit the aspirations of the people,” said Mr. Reshi.
J&K PC main Sajad Lone termed the NC protestation “yet different effort to divert attraction from their failures”. “Try to divert attraction from the lies of the predetermination manifesto. Yet different effort astatine sob stories,” said Mr. Lone.
Ruling NC Member of Parliament Syed Aga Ruhullah, who has been captious of the functioning of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, said, “Fight for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s Statehood and law guarantees indispensable beryllium based connected consistency and credibility and not theatrics oregon optics.
He asked the NC to travel up with a roadworthy map. “Reach retired to the full of Kashmir and make a question successful favour of your demands. We should physique a antiauthoritarian and peaceful question until the rights taken distant successful 2019 are restored,” said Mr. Ruhullah.
Backing the PDP’s thought of a agreed front, Mr. Ruhullah excessively sought unification of parties successful Jammu and Kashmir. “If governmental parties are serious, they should support electoral authorities speech and absorption wholly connected the movement. People volition lone spot specified efforts if they spot sincerity and consistency,” helium said.
Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) spokesperson Inam Un Nabi termed the NC’s protestation extracurricular Parliament “a belated exercise”. “We sincerely anticipation this marks the opening of a sustained and result-oriented struggle. The contented should not halt astatine Statehood alone. The governmental enactment of Jammu and Kashmir indispensable determination beyond Statehood and collectively request restoration of each constitutional, antiauthoritarian and governmental rights that person been gradually taken distant since 1953,” said Mr. Nabi.
J&K Apni Party vice-president Ghulam Hassan Mir said the NC was “diluting the existent contented of engaging successful meaningful dialog with the Centre”. “At this juncture, determination is simply a request to prosecute successful talks with the Centre to guarantee the redress of the issues and problems facing Jammu and Kashmir. However, the NC has announced a sit-in protestation successful Delhi. Had it been superior astir resolving the issues, it would not person chosen this path,” said Mr. Mir.
He said determination was a request “to archetypal place the issues that indispensable beryllium addressed by New Delhi, recognize the problems radical are suffering from, and acceptable achievable goals”.
People’s Democratic Front (PDF) president Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen said the NC indispensable archetypal travel cleanable connected what precisely it was seeking from the Centre. The NC enactment indispensable clarify whether it was demanding the restoration of the aforesaid Statehood that existed earlier August 5, 2019, with law safeguards and protections for the radical of Jammu and Kashmir, oregon whether it was seeking a diluted signifier of Statehood without immoderate guarantees, safeguards, oregon peculiar law provisions, helium said.
He said some Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah publically assured Parliament and the radical of Jammu and Kashmir that Statehood would beryllium restored astatine an due time.
Meanwhile, J&K’s Grand Mufti Nasir-ul Islam said the radical of the portion privation to “live with India” portion having their ain State. “The request for Statehood is simply a antiauthoritarian close and not an enactment of separatism,” helium said.
The governmental reactions person followed the gathering chaired by Mr. Abdullah wherever the enactment decided to clasp a protestation connected the archetypal time of Parliament’s Monsoon Session successful New Delhi and press for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s Statehood and law guarantees.
