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Opposing the thought of separate Statehood for the Jammu region, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) said the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) purpose was to “dismantle and destroy J&K”.
Meanwhile, elder NC person and Minister Javed Rana called for the “reunification of Ladakh and J&K”.
“First, Ladakh was destroyed by the BJP by turning it into a abstracted Union Territory. If they [the BJP] present privation to bash the aforesaid with Jammu, fto them. The information is that the BJP is inactive incapable to power Ladakh. Why destruct Jammu now? Whenever their authorities fail, they transportation specified ideas. Why didn’t the BJP bash it successful 2019?” Mr. Abdullah said.
His absorption came successful the aftermath of remarks by BJP person and erstwhile Minister Sham Lal Sharma, who suggested the Jammu portion should beryllium granted abstracted Statehood.
Mr. Sharma’s connection did not bespeak crushed realities, Mr. Rana said. “There has been nary request for a abstracted Jammu State from the Pir Panjal Valley and the Chenab Valley. The radical successful these valleys proceed to basal with the thought of a unified Jammu and Kashmir,” Mr. Rana said.
Ladakh, which was carved retired by the Centre arsenic a abstracted Union Territory successful 2019, “will erstwhile again go portion of J&K”, helium said. “Restoration of a agreed J&K is lone a substance of time. The Government of India would yet person to determination towards reunification, maintaining that the thought of a divided Jammu and Kashmir is unsustainable,” Mr. Rana said.
The NC person suggested that governmental circumstances “would germinate to spot Ladakh reintegrating with J&K”. “History cannot beryllium rewritten permanently. A reunited J&K is inevitable,” Mr. Rana said.
Mr. Abdullah met Mohd Jaffer Akhoon, Chairman and Chief Executive Councillor of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council-Kargil.
Mr. Abdullah assured enactment connected issues of communal involvement to Mr. Akhoon, officials said, with Mr. Akhoon raising the contented of students wishing to survey successful J&K.
