Chief Minister Omar Abdullah praised former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, calling him a statesman throughout the obituary session on the second day of the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting. He added that if Vajpayee’s roadmap for Jammu and Kashmir had been totally carried out, the area can be in a really totally different state of affairs in the present day.
Omar mentioned, “It was Vajpayee ji who began the Lahore bus service and visited Minar-e-Pakistan. He all the time tried to construct pleasant ties with Pakistan. He was the one who repeatedly said that ‘pals could be modified, however not neighbors,’ and though he confronted criticism many instances, he by no means deviated from the trail he was following.” Omar Abdullah added, “I had the privilege of working with him. He was the primary and final chief to provide the slogan on the border: ‘Dost badal sakte hain, padosi nahi’ (We will change pals, however not neighbors). His imaginative and prescient for Jammu and Kashmir was that the issue might solely be solved on the idea of ‘Jhamuriyat, Kashmiriyat, and Insaniyat’ (Democracy, Kashmiri Id, and Humanity). I don’t suppose every other chief has had the braveness to lift this slogan.”
He additionally famous that it was Vajpayee who initiated the method of connecting divided households by opening the highway to Muzaffarabad, a historic choice that reunited households separated for many years and helped enhance relations with Pakistan.
Omar remarked, “Sadly, the trail and roadmap proven by Vajpayee have been left incomplete, and the state of affairs in the present day could be very totally different. But when Vajpayee’s roadmap for Jammu and Kashmir had been carried out, the area would have been in a special place in the present day.”
CPIM MLA Yousuf Tarigami’s Remark
CPIM MLA Yousuf Tarigami talked about that the home had handed a decision on autonomy, however Vajpayee despatched it again in the identical package deal. Omar responded, “It is true that he despatched the autonomy decision again, however quickly he realized that it was finished in haste. Vajpayee appointed then-Regulation Minister Arun Jaitley to carry talks with the NC management.”
Omar made these remarks whereas talking throughout the obituary references for the 57 lawmakers who handed away up to now six years.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s Obituary
Apparently, the record of obituaries included the title of hardline separatist chief, the late Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who had been elected as an MLA thrice earlier than becoming a member of the separatist camp. Geelani had received from the Sopore meeting constituency in 1972, 1977, and 1987. With the rise of terrorism in 1989, he joined the separatist motion and boycotted elections till his dying in 2021.
In the course of the obituary session, PDP MLA from Tral, Rafiq Naik, paid tribute to Geelani together with different distinguished former legislators. Naik was the one member of the Home to say Geelani in his obituary deal with. He mentioned, “Syed Ali Shah Geelani, might God bless his soul, together with the others now we have misplaced. I’ve additionally talked about the nation’s tallest chief, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and others. Geelani sb was a great orator, and sure, our political ideologies have been totally different.”
The Home was adjourned till tomorrow at 10 am, and it’s anticipated that routine enterprise will proceed. Given the disruptions witnessed within the Home yesterday, comparable scenes are anticipated tomorrow.
