{"id":91482,"date":"2025-10-08T21:28:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=91482"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:58:46","slug":"do-you-want-statehood-to-kill-innocent-kashmiri-civilians-sunil-sharma-to-omar-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/do-you-want-statehood-to-kill-innocent-kashmiri-civilians-sunil-sharma-to-omar-abdullah\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want statehood to kill innocent Kashmiri civilians?\u201d Sunil Sharma to Omar Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accuses National Conference of introducing PSA and pellet guns; says MHA\u2019s biggest achievement is that no local youth joined terrorism<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Srinagar, Oct 08 (KNO): Leader of the Opposition Sunil Sharma on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, questioning whether his demand for statehood was intended to kill innocent Kashmiri civilians.<\/p>\n

Addressing a news conference, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Sharma accused Abdullah of harming innocent civilians during his tenure as Chief Minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to remind Kashmiris that if we turn back the pages of history, we will find many fabricated stories told in the name of terrorism. Many people would narrate how they were innocent and killed during Omar Abdullah\u2019s tenure under the guise of counter-terrorism. Do you want statehood to kill innocent Kashmiris? You didn\u2019t eliminate terrorists-you targeted civilians, enforced shutdowns, and closed schools,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n

He said that Omar Abdullah harmed civilians and failed to protect people during his rule as Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n

\u201cWasn\u2019t statehood with National Conference governments between 2008 to 2014 and 1996 to 2008? Wasn\u2019t it with your governments that were in power till 1989 and 1982?\u201d Sharma asked.<\/p>\n

He further said that Kashmiris do not want a statehood where political rivals of the National Conference are booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA), and parents live in fear about the safety of their school-going children.<\/p>\n

Coming down heavily on the National Conference, Sharma accused the party of introducing the PSA and pellet guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were the ones who introduced pellet guns; you were the ones who imposed the PSA. If we compare the figures, the highest number of innocent civilians were killed during your tenure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sharma praised the Government of India for eliminating terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir without harming civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody can raise a finger at the Ministry of Home Affairs for harming civilians. The biggest achievement of the MHA is that not a single local youth joined terrorism. It shows that the youth of Kashmir have accepted the policies of the Government of India and want to voice their concerns within a democratic setup,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He accused Omar Abdullah of misleading and hoodwinking the public in the name of statehood to cover up governance failures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you listen to Omar Abdullah\u2019s speeches-whether on August 15, at public functions, or in institutions-he consistently tries to hoodwink the people of Jammu and Kashmir by claiming they lack power,\u201d Sharma added.<\/p>\n

Countering Omar Abdullah\u2019s claims , Sharma said the Lieutenant Governor had approved 97 decisions of the Council of Ministers over the past year.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell me, which file has not been approved by the LG? Which pro-people decisions have been held back? Is it about 200 units of free electricity or 12 LPG cylinders or 10 kilograms of ration, or one lakh jobs?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Sharma further accused Abdullah of misleading the public regarding the appointment of the Advocate General and the Transaction of Business Rules (ToBR).<\/p>\n

\u201cI have come to know that the file is pending with the CM\u2019s office,\u201d he said, adding that the Chief Minister is sitting on files related to the appointment of the Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education and the promotion of engineers\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accuses National Conference of introducing PSA and pellet guns; says MHA’s biggest achievement is that no local youth joined terrorism   Srinagar, Oct 08 (KNO): Leader of the Opposition Sunil Sharma on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, questioning whether his demand for statehood was intended to kill innocent Kashmiri civilians. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91482","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\/91482","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=91482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91484,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91482\/revisions\/91484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}