"It was a constitutional misdemeanour to have reduced the state of J&K to a Union Territory. It was wrong for the Supreme Court not to have decided that issue. Time to restore statehood. This is the constitutional right of the people of J&K."
A day after taking oath as a first Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah on Thursday chaired his first cabinet meeting, officials said.
Advocate Gopal Shankarnarayan mentioned the application for urgent listing of the matter, to which a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that it will list the case.
After taking oath, Omar Abdullah received a guard of honour at Civil Secretariat in Srinagar and held his first maiden meeting with secretaries of various departments
Earleir in the day, in a people-friendly gesture, newly sworn-in Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday that he has told the police not to have "green corridor" or traffic stoppage during his movement by road and effort should be to cause minimum inconvenience to
In a thinly veiled attack at the BJP-led Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that government formation without statehood felt incomplete today. The reaction of the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha came hours attending in the oath taking ceremony of Omar Abdulla
After National Conference leader Omar Abdullah took oath as the first Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, Sakina Itoo, the only woman minister in Omar Abdullah's cabinet said that they would try to meet the expectations of the people and work for them.
The BJP put up a impressive performance bagging 29 seats. Peoples' Democratic Party won three seats 3 seats and one each by the People's Conference, CPI-M and AAP. Seven seats were also won by the Independents.