{"id":91367,"date":"2025-09-30T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=91367"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:09:56","slug":"wont-compromise-on-statehood-will-fight-democratically-peacefully-cm-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/wont-compromise-on-statehood-will-fight-democratically-peacefully-cm-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"Won\u2019t compromise on statehood, will fight democratically, peacefully: CM Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Says will resign if BJP’s inclusion in govt will help restore statehood; “Was prepared to protest, but don’t want to see Kashmiris collapse under grief again”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anantnag, Sep 30: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said he won\u2019t make an compromise on the issue of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and that his government\u2019s struggle would remain rooted in democratic values and non-violence.<\/p>\n

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Addressing a gathering in Anantnag, per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), CM Omar said he was prepared to protest but Ladakh situation in front of all and he would not accept \u201cdestruction, devastation and bloodshed\u201d in the Valley.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI will fight democratically and peacefully for the restoration of statehood. But I will not allow Kashmir to once again plunge into fire. Families here have already suffered enough and I do not want to see that cycle of grief return,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He also ruled out any political accommodation with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to achieve the objective. \u201cIf inclusion of BJP in the government will help restore statehood, then take my resignation and make any other MLA the Chief Minister, but I will not compromise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He recalled that after the last assembly elections, he too had the option of aligning with the BJP. \u201cLike Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti did in 2015 and 2016, I could have chosen to form government with the BJP. Forming govt with the BJP perhaps statehood would have come sooner. But I chose the other path, to keep BJP away from power in J&K. We may have to wait longer, but I will never allow them to enter government through us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Responding to voices demanding protests for statehood, CM Omar drew a comparison with Ladakh. \u201cIn Ladakh, when people came out, firing started within an hour. Here in Kashmir, they won\u2019t even wait that long \u2013 bullets will rain within ten minutes. I don\u2019t want Kashmiri families to collapse under grief again. We will continue our fight, but democratically and peacefully,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

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He also reminded people that Ladakh, which had initially welcomed the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, has now admitted that it was the constitutional protection which safeguarded their interests. \u201cWe had said it then, and we say it now, whatever happened on August 5, 2019, was wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He said that his government\u2019s struggle for statehood would remain rooted in democratic values and non-violence. \u201cWe are not against development or governance, but statehood is our identity. We will not rest until it is restored and that too without surrendering our principles,\u201d he said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Says will resign if BJP’s inclusion in govt will help restore statehood; “Was prepared to protest, but don’t want to see Kashmiris collapse under grief again” Anantnag, Sep 30: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said he won’t make an compromise on the issue of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and that his government’s struggle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91369,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91367\/revisions\/91369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}