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New Delhi, Aug 5   :   Terming the government's move on Article 370 "unilateral and shocking", former chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said it was a total "betrayal of trust" of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. 

Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday moved a resolution in both the Houses of Parliament that Article 370 will not be applicable to the state.

"Government of India (GOI)'s unilateral and shocking decisions today are a total betrayal of the trust that the people of Jammu & Kashmir had reposed in India when the state acceded to it in 1947. The decisions will have far-reaching and dangerous consequences. This is an aggression against people of the State as had been warned by an all-parties meeting in Srinagar yesterday.

"GOI has resorted to deceit and stealth in recent weeks to lay the ground for these disastrous decisions. Our darkest apprehensions have unfortunately come true after the GOI and its representatives in J&K lied to us that nothing major was planned," he said. 

He said that the announcement was made after the entire state, particularly the Valley, was turned into a garrison. 

"Those of us who gave democratic voice to the people of Jammu & Kashmir, are incarcerated as lakhs of armed security personnel have been put on the ground.

"The scrapping of Articles 370 and 35A raise fundamental questions on the state's accession because that was done on the very terms enunciated in these articles. The decisions are unilateral, illegal and unconstitutional and will be challenged as such by the National Conference . A long and tough battle lies ahead. We are ready for that," he said.                                             [Agencies]
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Srinagar, Aug 3 :    National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Saturday said Jammu and Kashmir Governor S P Malik has assured his party that no moves are planned on repealing Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution, or the state's trifurcation. 

However, the former J&K chief minister said he wants an assurance on these issues from the Centre in Parliament on Monday. 

Abdullah and some of his party colleagues met the Governor Saturday on these issues. "He assured us that there was no movement on (repealing) Article 370 or Article 35A or delimitation (of constituencies in the state)," he told reporters here. 

Abdullah said he has asked his party MPs to move a motion in Parliament on Monday seeking a statement from the Union government on the situation that has developed in Jammu and kashmir over the past few weeks. 

"We want the government make a statement on situation in the state in the Parliament," he said. 

Abdullah appealed to the people of the state to keep calm and control their emotions and not take any step that may align with the aim of the people with vested interests.                 [Agencies]
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Srinagar, Mar 29 :  National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Friday said reports about prosecution withholding critical information about the Samjhauta Express blast case from the court was a reflection of the respect the BJP-led central government had for institutions of the country.

"The judge presiding over the special NIA court has himself said that the prosecution withheld critical information that would have allowed a guilty verdict to be passed. Clearly, this government has no respect for institutions," Abdullah told reporters at a press conference here.

The former chief minister said the disrespect for the institutions was seen across the length and breadth of the government.

"Whether NITI Aayog chairman being hauled up by the Election Commission for giving political statements or the way they have treated Reserve Bank of India and reduced it to a subsidiary of the government, rather than an independent body.

"We are yet to see a decision from the Election commission of India where the Prime Minister uses a space-related announcement to further the BJP's campaign. And now what we have seen with the courts and the way in which Samjhauta trial has been sabotaged by withholding the evidence," he said.

Abdullah said even the railways was being used to campaign for the Prime Minister.

"I don't know how effective the chowkidar slogan will be for the BJP, that only time will tell, but the fact that railways is circulating cups with chowkidar written on them and the Election Commission is powerless to do anything about it, is a reflection on independence and how the institutions have been weakened.

"I myself am a witness to boarding passes for at least two flights departing from Srinagar with photographs of PM Modi even after model code of conduct came into effect. It is no surprise that this government has very little, if any, regard for institutions," he added.

A special court in Haryana's Panchkula, which had acquitted Swami Aseemanand and three others in the Samjhauta Express train blast case, Thursday said the National Investigating Agency lost a valuable piece of evidence by not conducting an identification parade.

NIA court special Judge Jagdeep Singh said the agency did not bother to conduct a Test Identification Parade (TIP) of the suspects after learning that an Indore tailor may have stitched the covers of the two suitcases in which unexploded bombs were found in the train.

All the four accused -- Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan and Rajinder Chaudhary -- were acquitted by the court on March 20.        [Agencies]
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Srinagar, Feb 26 :  National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Tuesday said the strikes carried out by the Indian Air Force on JeM camps is a "totally new ball game" as it was first time that air power was used during peace time to hit terrorist targets in the neighbouring country. 

"We've entered a whole new paradigm with the Balakote air strike. The post Uri strike was to avenge our losses, Balakote was a 'preemptive strike to prevent an imminent JeM attack'. Totally new ballgame," Abdullah tweeted.

The former chief minister was reacting to the statement made by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale in New Delhi that India conducted a major preemptive strike on Jaish-e-Mohammed's biggest camp early Tuesday to prevent suicide attacks being planned by the Pakistan-based terror group, killing a large number of terrorists and trainers. 

"A number of firsts from Balakote, the two most obvious are the first time air power has been used to strike inside Pakistan during peace times (last time in 1971 was during war) & first time visible, acknowledged use of force to preempt a perceived terror strike," Abdullah added.

Reacting to the developments, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti expressed hope that the "objectives" of both New Delhi and Islamabad had been served as they were making contradictory claims about the air strikes.

"Post pre-dawn strikes carried out by IAF, conflicting reports coming in. Official communique by FS claims that terror training camps were bombed while Pak denied this & said that the planes made a hasty retreat after being spotted. Hope objective of both sides has been served," she said in a tweet.
       [Agencies]
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Srinagar, Feb 25 :  Holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be a test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handling of Kashmir over the last five years, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said Monday.

"Will the Modi government bow before those forces of separatism & terror that have always sought to disrupt/delay polls in J&K or will polls take place on schedule? The moment of truth for PM Modi's handling of Kashmir over the last 5 years," Abdullah wrote on his Twitter handle.

The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir was reacting to media reports that the Election Commission of India will take a call on holding Assembly polls together with the Lok Sabha election after a visit to the state this week.

Abdullah said except for an odd by-election, all elections in Jammu and Kashmir since 1995-96 have been held as per schedule.

"Will PM Modi be able to keep to this schedule or will he accept he's totally mishandled J&K? The next few days will give us the answer," he added.                    [Agencies]
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Srinagar, Oct 15 (PTI) After former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti described slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Manan Wani a "victim of relentless violence", National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah Monday accused her of showing "fake sympathy", saying it worked in the past but would not work now.

"How short Ms Mufti's memory is! She forgets that she was the architect & beneficiary (it kept her allies in good humour) for her entire period in office. She is in no position to criticise anyone for 'relentless violence'," he wrote on Twitter. 

Omar was responding to Mehbooba's tweets in which she called for withdrawal of cases against Kashmiri students studying in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and described Wani as "a victim of relentless violence in Kashmir".

"Pushing youth to the wall will be counter productive. Centre must intervene in withdrawing cases against students & AMU authorities must revoke their suspension. The respective State governments outside JK should be sensitive to the situation & prevent further alienation," Mehbooba had tweeted. 

"It will be a travesty to punish them for remembering their former colleague who was a victim of relentless violence in Kashmir," she said in another tweet.

Omar said Mehbooba headed the Unified Command which "directed the security forces to execute 'Operation All-out' & she famously justified the killing of young protestors in 2016 saying 'they aren't coming out to buy milk or toffees', . 

"Ms Mufti's Govt (government) made every effort to trap & kill Manan Wani coming close a few times. Her fake sympathy & crocodile tears for dead Kashmiri militants worked for a few years, they won't work again," the NC leader added. 
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Srinagar, Sept 7: Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah has criticised the timing of changing the state DGP, saying there was no hurry to replace S P Vaid and the state police could do without having to deal with the confusion of leadership.

The state government removed Vaid as the DGP late Thursday night and handed the charge to DG Prisons Dilbagh Singh till a permanent appointment is made.

"There was no hurry to replace @spvaid. He should have been changed only when a permanent arrangement had been worked out. @JmuKmrPolice has enough problems without having to deal with confusion of leadership," Omar wrote on Twitter soon after the government announced Vaid's removal.

"Changing the DG is the prerogative of the administration but why a DG as a temporary arrangement? The current DG won't know if he's going to stay & others who would like his job will be trying to replace him. None of this is good for @JmuKmrPolice," Omar said.

The outgoing DGP thanked the police department, other security agencies and the people for their support during his tenure as the top cop of the state.

"I'm thankful to God that he gave me the opportunity to serve my people and my country. I'm grateful to @JmuKmrPolice, security agencies, and people of J&K for their support and their faith in me.

My best wishes to the new DGP," Vaid wrote on Twitter. (PTI)
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Srinagar, Jun 23 : National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah today said the NDA government's claim that more militants were killed in Kashmir during its rule than in the UPA dispensation actually tells how it allowed militancy and violence to re-emerge in the Valley.
Actually minister sahib this tells the story of how your government allowed militancy & violence to re-emerge in J&K forcing the security forces to kill more terrorists, Omar wrote on Twitter.
The former J&K chief minister was reacting to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's tweet and statement that more militants were killed under the NDA government than in the UPA rule.
Prasad said security forces had killed 72 and 67 militants in 2012 and 2013 under the UPA and the figure rose to 110 in 2014 when the BJP-led NDA came to power at the Centre.
He said the forces killed 108 militants in 2015, 150 in 2016, 217 in 2017 and 75 till May this year.
Omar said the increase in the number of militants killed was not an achievement.
You should be embarrassed by these statistics not be claiming them as some achievement, the NC vice president wrote.PTI

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Srinagar, Jun 20 : National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah today called for immediate dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and holding of fresh elections in the state.

In a surprise move, the BJP yesterday pulled out of the three-year-old ruling coalition with the PDP in the state that was placed under Governor's rule this morning.

"The J&K state assembly should be dissolved immediately & fresh elections should take place as soon as appropriate. The former DCM has admitted that BJP can't be trusted not to horsetrade for Govt formation (sic)," Omar tweeted.

The former chief minister was reacting to BJP leader and former deputy chief minister (DCM) Kavinder Gupta's reported statement that his party was "working on something".

"I don't think a new government will be formed anytime soon. Uncertainties are there, but we are working on something and people will get to know about it," Gupta had reportedly said.

The NC leader claimed that Gupta's statement hinted at the BJP's attempts to break other parties to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir.

"What do you mean 'we are working on something'? The only 'something' would be to break other parties & make up the numbers to form a BJP Govt. Has the former DCM inadvertently spilled the beans?" Omar asked on Twitter.

On a news report about Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh not being kept in the loop about the BJP's decision to pull out of the government, Omar tweeted, "If this story is true & @HMOIndia didn't know about the impending demise of the BJPDP alliance then the fact that it caught me & my colleagues by surprise is really no big deal."  PTI 

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SRINAGAR, JUNE 19: This afternoon Governor N.N. Vohra received a letter by fax, jointly signed by S/Shri Ravinder Raina and Kavinder Gupta, State BJP President and Leader, BJP Legislature Party, respectively, to withdraw BJP’s support to the Coalition Government. Thereafter, Ms Mufti, Chief Minister, tendered her resignation and the Governor has asked her to continue in office till alternative arrangements are made.
Governor spoke to Shri Kavinder Gupta and Ms Mehbooba Mufti to ascertain whether their respective Political Parties intended to explore alternative alliances to form the Government of the State and was informed in the negative by both the leaders. Governor also spoke to Shri G.A. Mir, President J&K Congress Party, who informed that his Party did not have the numerical strength to form Government on its own or in alliance. Later, Governor had a meeting with Shri Omar Abdullah, Vice President, National Conference, who stated that there was no alternative to Governor’s Rule and elections.
After concluding his consultations with all the major Political Parties in J&K Governor Vohra has forwarded his Report to the President of India for imposition of Governor’s Rule under Section 92 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Srinagar, May 12: Working president of National Conference (NC) Omar Abdullah alleged that BJP leaders had gobbled up the land and later hoped to use their influence to regularise the purchase.
Taking to micro-blogging site twitter, Mr Abdullah, the former Chief Minister, said, 'BJP leaders' homes in Jammu are 'a security risk', according to the Army. It was well-known locally they gobbled up the land at cheap price & had hoped to use their influence to regularise the purchase.' 
He was reacting to media reports that J&K BJP leaders, including current Deputy Chief Minister and MP, who had bought land next to Nagrota ammunition depot, has been declared illegal by the Army. UNI 


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Srinagar, May 8: Alleging that Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and PDP-BJP alliance has failed, working president of the opposition National Conference (NC) Omar Abdullah urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to realize the gravity of the situation as much blood has been shed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Ms Mehbooba should step down from her chair, the former chief minister said.
“The J&K govt has failed, the CM has failed, the BJP-PDP alliance has failed. How much blood will have to be shed in Kashmir before the Hon PM realises the gravity of the situation in J&K? When will enough finally be enough?', Mr Abdullah asked on twitter.
The NC working president also re-tweeted a number of tweets of former union minister P Chidambaram on his twitter account.
Demanding that Mehbooba should step down, Mr Abdullah said the Chief Minister should accept her failure to govern and inability to handle the deteriorating situation in the state. 
The youth of the state “feel betrayed and are being pushed against the wall as the ruling PDP-BJP alliance has robbed them of hope while being solely obsessed with the goal of remaining glued to power, the NC working president said at a public meeting at Kargil in Ladakh region on Monday.
He said the CM should accept her failure as civilian killings, instability and violence seem to have become the norm in the state. She should step down before the situation deteriorates any further, Mr Abdullah said.
He said regrets being expressed by Mr Mehbooba after every civilian killings was not enough as she continues to augment the sense of hostility and alienation among the youth. 
Mr Abdullah re-tweeted the tweets of Mr Chidambaran which read, 'Share J&K CM's concern that statesmanship required to get J&K out of the vicious cycle of killings. Sad that she does not see that her coalition government is the core of the problem”.
“The central government's muscular, militaristic approach to the J&K issue has driven the state towards the present catastrophic situation”, the Union Minister and senior Congress leader has tweeted. 
“The PDP-BJP coalition is the gravest provocation to the people of the Kashmir valley. Mehboobaji, quit the coalition immediately and go back to the people”, Chidambaam said. 
However, PDP criticised Mr Chidambaram and question why he could not do anything when he was Defence minister of the country. UNI
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Srinagar, May 4: Upping the ante at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, National Conference (NC) working president Omar Abdullah said someone should ask Mr Adityanath why campaigning in Karnataka is a bigger priority than visiting some of the families, who lost their loved ones in the dust storms.
'If you do an interview with the CM of UP & don't ask him why campaigning in Karnataka is a bigger priority than visiting some of the families who lost loved ones in the dust storms then it's a puff piece, not an interview,' the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Over 100 people were killed in a dust storm, accompanied by rain that created havoc across Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Thursday, uprooting trees and flattening houses. UNI


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Srinagar, May 3: Taking a dig at Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta for his statement that BJP does not support the policy of soft approach towards stone pelters, working president of the main opposition National Conference Omar Abdullah said amnesty to stone pelters was announced by the Union Home Minister on the advice of interlocutor.
Stone-pelting by miscreants on a school bus in Shopian in south Kashmir on Wednesday in which two minor students were injured evoked condemnation from mainstream and separatists leaders.
Taking to micro-blogging site twitter Omar Abdullah, reacting to Mr Gupta’s statement on injury to two minor students, said, “Some one needs to remind the Deputy CM that the amnesty was announced from Delhi by the
Union Home Minister on the advice of the interlocutor.”
Cases against about 10,000 stone pelters were withdrawn in the Kashmir valley on the directions by Union Home Ministry after centre appointed interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma recommended following his several rounds of interaction with politicians, traders and common people since his appointment in October last year.
Jammu and Kashmir police has been organising counseling of stone pelters and other misguided youths and their parents almost daily in the valley.
Mr Gupta on Shopian school bus attack has said that the BJP doesn't support the policy of soft approach towards stone pelters. UNI
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Srinagar, Apr 20: Taking a dig at Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh for showing lack of confidence in Jammu and Kashmir police in Kathua rape and murder case, the working president of the main opposition National Conference (NC) alleged that this is how BJP is playing politics and inciting trouble.
Reacting to Dr Singh’s statement that actual culprits should be found and pronounced guilty in Kathua rape case, the former Chief Minister said, “The Deputy CM has just pronounced his complete LACK of confidence in the @JmuKmrPolice & the J&K High Court which is overseeing the Kathua probe. This is how they play politics & incite trouble”.
The Crime Branch (CB) of state police has arrested and produced challan in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Kathua against eight people arrested in connection with the case. However, the Hindu Ekta Manch (HEM) has demanded that Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the crime. Two BJP ministers-- Choudhary Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga-- who took part in the protest demonstration by HEM against arrest of accused, had to resign from the coalition PDP-BJP government following massive protests across the country against the crime.
Dr Singh had, on Friday, said that it was a bigger conspiracy hatched from across the border to set Jammu and Kashmir on fire by ranking up the Kathua incident. He alleged that the case was wrongly projected by opposition parties and a section of media.
Choudhary Singh, Mr Ganga and HEM are demanding CBI investigation while the family of victims are demanding shifting of case to Chandigarh from Kathua, where a group of lawyers had tried to prevent CB to present challan in the court.
An Eight-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered in Kathua in January this year. UNI
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Srinagar, Apr 14: Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah hit out on a section of people on Saturday for attempting to communalise the rape and brutal murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua.
'If some of you want to defend the rape of a minor girl and can live with yourselves after that be my guest, but please don’t try to make it look like a Hindu vs Muslims issue,' he said.
Mr Abdullah, who is the working president of National Conference (NC), said that a handful of bigoted men misusing a place of worship with the express aim of driving Muslims out from the area, is not a reflection of the people of Jammu and their commitment to the secular character of J&K.
“Kathua is about the rape and murder of an EIGHT year old child & the need to see justice done in this case. The rest of the noise is just an attempt at obfuscation,” he wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
“So if some of you want to defend the rape of a minor girl and can live with yourselves after that, be my guest but please don’t try to make it look like a Hindus of Jammu v/s Muslims issue,” he said.
He said the people of Jammu are no more guilty of this crime than the people of Delhi for the rape of Nirbhaya in 2012.
“Some people are determined to sell the binary that demanding justice for the victim of the Kathua travesty is akin to calling every Hindu of Jammu a rape sympathiser,” Mr Abdullah added. UNI
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Srinagar, Apr 13: Alleging that the first ‘pro-rapist’ rally in Asifa’s case was carried out by two of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s ministers, who continue to serve in the state Cabinet, National Conference (NC) working president Omar Abdullah on Friday asked what action will be taken against them.
Mr Abdullah was reacting to Ms Mehbooba’s assertion that the state government will bring a new law that will make death penalty mandatory for those who rape minors, so that little Ashifa’s case becomes the last.
“Mehbooba ji before you try to convince us that you would be able to safeguard future Asifas, what action will you take against your Ministers, who supported Asifa’s murderers?” Mr Abdullah, who is the former chief minister of the state, tweeted.
“Dear PDP, the first “pro-rapist” rally was taken out by two of Mehbooba Mufti’s ministers & they continue to serve at the pleasure of the Chief Minister in her cabinet,” he tweeted.
“When asked why the pro-rapist BJP ministers continue to serve in @MehboobaMufti’s cabinet the PDP spokesperson said, “that’s a question for PM Modi”. Oh the helplessness of our powerless Chief Minister!” he added.
Mr Abdullah also lashed out at BJP Cabinet minister Lal Singh for his comment, "so what if this girl has died, many girls die every day' remains unnoticed by the high command.
“So what if the person, who said this remains a minister in @MehboobaMufti’s government, compromises are made for power every day,” he added.
Meanwhile, lashing out at people, including BJP Ministers, seeking the Asifa rape and murder case to be transferred from Crime Branch of state police to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mr Abdullah said J&K police is fine for them so long as the personnel are falling to militants bullets and getting injured in stone pelting but when it comes to investigating a wicked rape/murder suddenly they can’t be trusted.
Mr Abdullah was reacting to a tweet which read, “The BJP Jammu spokesperson tells me they have no faith in J and K police crime branch investigation in Kathua rape; but isn't the BJP in power in J and K and doesn't police report to state govt or is there one govt in Srinagar, and another in Jammu? #JusticeforAsifa.” 
A group of lawyers even tried to prevent CBI from producing the challan in the court on Monday. However, later with the help of police the challan was filed in the court.
Seven persons were arrested by the CBI in the rape and murder case. A number of BJP leaders and Kathua Bar Association demanded that the case should be handed over to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Two ministers of the BJP also joined the protest against the arrest of accused, evoking massive condemnation from various organisations. UNI
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Srinagar, Apr 3: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said in the light of some people tweeting to tell him that the news report appearing in a Delhi newspaper about the attack on tourists in Srinagar was fake, he is deleting the tweet.
A police official said tourists were not attacked in Kashmir. 'We are looking into reports of stone pelting on tourist buses,' he added.
The Director Tourism, Kashmir also rejected reports that tourists were attacked in Srinagar. "We confirmed with different police stations and all stake holders but no such incident has taken place," he said. 
Mr Abdullah, who is very active on Twitter, uploaded a screenshot of a news report published in ‘Times of India’ captioned ‘Stone pelters attack tourists in J&K, 4 hurt’. Along with the screenshot, Mr Abdullah wrote, 'Theses stone-pelters are no friends or well-wishers of Kashmiris. They deserve to face the weight of law.'
However, soon after facing criticism from the twitterites, who claimed that it was fake news, the former CM deleted the tweet. 'In light of some people tweeting to tell me the Times of India story datelined from Srinagar was “Fake News” I’m deleting the tweet,' Mr Abdullah, who is the working president of National Conference, wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
'I’ve deleted it for the time being but if this is really fake news let’s see an acceptance of the same & a retraction of the story on the front of tomorrow’s Times of India. I’ll happily tweet a photo of that also. Now retweet this as well,' Mr Abdullah wrote in response to a tweet by Secretary J&K State Sports Council Waheed-Ur-Rehman Parra.
'Sad you prefer to promote a news that's baseless, insulting and defaming/maligning the image of whole Kashmiris,' Mr Parra said. 
That having been, Mr Abdullah said, 'I tweeted a story from the front page of the Delhi edition of one of India’s most trusted newspapers, not some rag that makes a living from gossip & lies.' UNI
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Srinagar, Mar 26: Questioning Air India’s refusal to disclose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flight record under Right to Information (RTI), former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said how the information was secret when all visits took place in the glare of massive media coverage.
Mr Abdullah, working president of the main opposition National Conference (NC), was reacting to media reports that Air India refused to disclose the flight records saying PM Modi’s flight records cannot be disclosed under RTI due to security reasons.
Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter Mr Abdullah said “ I can understand questions related to forthcoming visits but how is information regarding flights/visits already undertaken a security risk? All visits took place in the glare of massive media coverage”. UNI
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Srinagar, Mar 25  Reacting to BJP leader and the chief architect of the party’s rise in the northeast, Himanta Biswa Sarma’s comment on Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Jammu and Kashmir former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said politics in India has too many good politicians, but not nearly enough good human beings.
“Politics in India has too many good politicians but not nearly enough good human beings,” Mr Abdullah, who is the working president of National Conference (NC), wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
Mr Abdullah was reacting to Mr Sarma’s comment that the Congress president may be a good human being, but he is not cut out to be a politician.
Mr Abdullah said ''speaking purely for myself, if being a good human being and a good politician are mutually exclusive, I’ll choose to be a good human being any day of the week''.UNI 
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