Srinagar, Feb 22: National Conference President and Member Parliament Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said that the central government was playing a gimmick with the people here and the world on restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
Abdullah claimed that the union government does not want to restore statehood.
“ They don’t want to restore statehood. It is a gimmick to fool us and the whole world,” former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Abdullah told reporters in Srinagar.
He said the centre would run the affairs likewise and will never give statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
“We are calmly watching their day today, orders they are issuing …what a slave society will do …we are sitting and watching proceedings”, Abdullah said.
The NC president said if the government of India claiming that the situation here in Jammu and Kashmir was normal and they completed the delimitation process, then what is the reason they are not holding elections here
“When elections can be held in other states of India why not here”, he said.
Abdullah said the central government has put a Lieutenant Governor here and he is looking at everything.
Regarding land encroachment and demolition drive, Farooq Abdullah said that the houses of poor people were demolished.
“Where was the government when they constructed houses and why did they allow them to built”, he questioned.
He said the people have constructed their houses on loan taken from the banks which were demolished by the authorities.
He said that to demolish a house is easy, but to construct it is very difficult…what the authorities did was very wrong, he added.
