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Restore statehood, conduct elections: Omar

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 4/5/2020 12:24:38 AM

SRINAGAR, Apr 4: Former chief minister Omar Abdullah today urged government of India to restore statehood of Jammu and Kashmir and hold assembly elections.
He took to twitter to react to the centre's moves to first make domicile law for J& K and then amend it within days.
"It is high time the people of J&K get to decide the laws that will govern them rather than being subjected to the whims & fancies of the centre where orders are issued in the morning & changes to the same order issued in the evening. Restore statehood, conduct elections," Omar wrote.
In another tweet later he wrote, "Delhi made a mistake notifying the domicile rules during this time of crisis & I made a mistake getting sucked in to this debate at a time when it’s wrong to let politics distract from the #COVID19 fight. I haven’t spoken my mind about 5/8/2019 yet but I will when this is over."
"For the time being, regardless of the provocation, I’ll focus on the battle at hand. Twitter is anyway the wrong place to talk about what I feel about 5/8/2019 until I’m able to find a platform for a detailed explanation of thoughts/feelings/plans," Omar added.