Making J&K a UT Was Humiliation, Won't Contest Assembly Polls Till Statehood Restored: Omar Abdullah

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has vowed not to contest any Assembly elections till J&K remains a union territory as he hit out at the Narendra Modi government for the complete dilution of the “indispensable” Article 370 of the Constitution.

“Having been a member of the most empowered Assembly in the land and that, too, as the leader of that Assembly for six years, I simply cannot and will not be a member of a House that has been disempowered the way ours has,” Abdullah wrote for the Indian Express as the revocation of the erstwhile state’s special status nears its first anniversary.

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