Omar Abdullah rebuffs BJP demand to set up National Law University in Jammu instead of Kashmir

J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected Monday rebuffed the caller request of the BJP to acceptable up National Law University (NLU) successful Jammu alternatively of Kashmir.

“Jammu got some an IIT and an IIM, wherever was the speech of equality then? There was nary request for determination equilibrium astatine that time. Today, adjacent earlier a determination connected the National Law University is taken, cries of favoritism are being raised. No determination has been made yet. Let america determine first,” Mr. Abdullah said.

Mr. Abdullah’s remarks came successful effect to the BJP transportation to acceptable the NLU successful Jammu alternatively of Kashmir. “The NLU should unfastened successful Jammu and not successful Kashmir. It is simply a nationalist institute, and Jammu is simply a amended spot arsenic it has amended connectivity,” BJP person and legislator R.S. Pathania said.

Last year, Mr. Abdullah, successful a speech, had hinted that the NLU volition function from Budgam’s Ompora country of the Kashmir valley.

The BJP request is the latest successful its run successful Jammu aft seeking cancellation of the MBBS enactment list, which had 42 Muslims retired of 50, astatine the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence successful Jammu’s Katra.