Where Centre helps, will thank them: Omar Abdullah

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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. File

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. File | Photo Credit: PTI

Facing disapproval from determination Opposition parties for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected Saturday defended his remarks that the Centre has been wide with funds for the Union Territory (UT). 

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“I person said this galore times, adjacent successful the J&K Assembly. Where the Centre helps, I convey them. And wherever it’s wrong, I telephone it arsenic it is. For example, connected Statehood we are near lone with complaints against the Centre. I cannot play authorities to lie, to mislead oregon delight anyone,” Mr. Abdullah said. 

Mr. Abdullah precocious said that PM Modi has been wide with backing for economically disadvantaged J&K. These remarks evoked crisp reactions from leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and J&K Peoples Conference, who accused Mr. Abdullah of trying to usage pleasing connection for the PM. 

“I can’t judge it. Isn’t it the aforesaid CM sahib who won an full predetermination by branding everybody arsenic an cause of BJP. Those pejoratives helium used. Even if a conciliatory enactment was intended, taking the genu could person been accomplished successful a little humiliating manner,” J&K Peoples Conference person Sajad Gani Lone said. 

Meanwhile, the J&K Chief Minister objected to replacing the Mahatma Gandhi-linked employment strategy with G. Ramji G. “Gandhi’s sanction should not person been removed. The caller sanction reminds maine of the movie sanction ‘G Mummy G’. Besides, J&K volition carnivore the load due to the fact that the Bill has made galore amendments that enactment other burdens connected regions similar ours,” Mr. Abdullah said.

Published - December 20, 2025 09:48 p.m. IST

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