Calling the issue of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir a sensitive one, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravinder Raina said that the elected government of the union territory and the union government should hold discussions together to work for the security of the people.
Indian Coast Guard has successfully conducted the Coastal Security Exercise 'Sagar Kavach' on October 16-17 for the State of Gujarat and the Union Territory of Daman & Diu.
"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.
The new office will serve four major western Indian states--Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Goa--as well as the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
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.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday extended her wishes to National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on taking oath as the Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile, National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.