Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on February 27 that the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir is far from normal more than five years after Article 370 was abrogated.
Abdullah said the normalcy in the Union Territory, as claimed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, is not organic, but forced, citing instances in support of his argument.
Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, was abrogated in August 2019 during the previous BJP-led regime at the centre. Top BJP leaders have been attributing the abrogation of Article 370 to normalcy in the erstwhile state.
On February 24, speaking at a function in the national capital, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “There is peace in Jammu and Kashmir, and this peace has to be permanent.”
Abdullah, however, disagreed. “Because you can only control a situation out of fear for a limited time…. If people (centre) believed that it was organic, then they wouldn’t have closes Jamia Masjid in Srinagar and not allow Mirwaiz to take part in funeral prayers of his father-in-law. This is because they feared a law and order situation would break out. A law and order situation will break out when normalcy is not organic. It breaks out when normalcy is forced. And therefore, what you have in Jammu and Kashmir today is a forced normalcy,” Abdullah said.
Courtesy : livemint.com
