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J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected Friday (November 28, 2025) accused Raj Bhavan-appointed officers of carrying retired demolition drives successful Jammu and Kashmir to malign his government.
“Officers appointed by the Raj Bhavan person started utilizing bulldozers without seeking consent from the elected government. They did not adjacent instrumentality the curate acrophobic into confidence. This seems similar a conspiracy to defame, embarrass and undermine the medication chosen by the people,” said Mr. Abdullah. His comments were made successful the discourse of caller demolition drives — 1 led by Jammu Development Authority vice-chairman Rupesh Kumar successful Narwal, wherever a journalist’s location was pulled down, and different ordered by Deputy Commissioner Jatin Kishore successful Kangan aft a reported altercation with NC MLA Mian Mehar Ali.
The owners of the structures successful Jammu and Kangan alleged that the officers did not travel the owed ineligible process oregon service notices earlier sending the bulldozers.
Mr. Abdullah who was speaking astatine the enactment office successful Srinagar, besides expressed interest implicit “selective targeting of a peculiar community” successful these demolition drives. “A pick-and-choose argumentation has been adopted. Our authorities does not favour amerciable constructions but wherefore people a peculiar community? Officers posted by the Raj Bhawan are acting connected instructions from elsewhere and are present targeting 1 community,” the Chief Minister said.
Mr. Abdullah said the appointments of main enforcement officers (CEOs) and vice-chairmen travel nether the purview of the elected government, but these posts are filled by the Raj Bhawan. “Key tract and gross officials are being appointed without the support of the elected government,” helium added.
The Chief Minister directed the JDA CEO to people a database of each amerciable occupants. “Then everyone volition spot what enactment is taken. Had our ain officers behaved similar this, we would person acted immediately. These officers enactment without immoderate accountability to the elected government,” helium said.
Meanwhile, the NC’s cardinal moving committee concluded its two-day gathering successful Srinagar. It was chaired by NC president Dr. Farooq Abdullah. The committee passed a associated seven-point resolution, calling for ‘restoration of J&K’s peculiar status’ and described it arsenic ‘central to the aspirations and dignity of the people’.
The NC besides reiterated its request for restoration of afloat statehood, “as repeatedly promised successful the Parliament and acknowledged by the Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench.
Condemning the blasts astatine Delhi’s Red Fort and successful Srinagar’s Nowgam, the NC called for high-level probes and accountability for immoderate information lapses successful the Nowgam incident. The enactment besides voiced interest implicit the reported harassment of students, traders and different residents of J&K successful antithetic parts of the country. “Not each Kashmiri is simply a violent oregon a protagonist of terror,” it stated.
Speaking astatine the event, Mr. Abdullah said, “During our tenure successful J&K, nary Pahalgam-style onslaught oregon blast similar the 1 successful Delhi occurred. Restore instrumentality and bid to us; if we neglect to negociate it, you tin instrumentality it back.”
