Let Opposition MPs be guided by their conscience on backing NDA in Parliament: Omar Abdullah

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) that Opposition MPs from the DMK and Shiv Sena should beryllium guided by their conscience connected whether they backmost oregon contradict enactment to the NDA implicit its pending Bills successful Parliament but “our enactment volition not backmost them”.

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Commenting connected reports that the DMK and Shiv Sena were apt to enactment the NDA connected pending legislations similar the women’s preservation bill, Mr. Abdullah said, “I cannot foretell from a region what volition happen. It is up to the conscience of these MPs however acold they privation to go. Our enactment volition not enactment them”.

“We stay committed to our governmental ideology and volition not change our basal for the involvement of power. Every enactment is escaped to marque its ain decisions, but the NC’s presumption is clear. We are guided by a acceptable of values. Those principles are not for sale,” Mr. Abdullah said.

The J&K Chief Minister said his enactment is focused connected fulfilling commitments made to radical and “not securing governmental vantage done shifting alliances”.

In a abstracted lawsuit successful the Valley, National Conference MP Mian Altaf reiterated that the NC plans to clasp a protestation successful New Delhi connected the archetypal time of the monsoon league of Parliament. “It [protest] volition beryllium held astatine the scheduled time. It is our duty,” said Mr. Altaf.

BJP attacks determination parties

Senior BJP person and J&K Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma said successful Srinagar that the bloodshed witnessed successful Kashmir implicit the past 35 years was “due to determination parties”. 

“J&K saw bloodshed, bullets and burning of schools erstwhile determination parties functioned nether Statehood. They utilized the Public Safety Act [PSA] and different stringent laws to suppress people. The bloodshed ended aft J&K was made a Union Territory and the Ministry of Home Affairs took power of instrumentality and order.”

Mr. Sharma referred to Kashmiri Pandits arsenic the “identity of Kashmir”. “The Narendra Modi government has created an situation wherever displaced Kashmiri Pandits tin instrumentality and assertion their property,” helium said.