J&K would not be in current situation if Vajpayee’s roadmap had been followed: Omar Abdullah
The former prime minister opened cross-border roads to bring people closer, but efforts are now being made to keep us apart, the chief minister said.
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Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday that if Jammu and Kashmir had followed the roadmap set by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, “we would not have been in the situation that we are in right now”, reported The Indian Express.
Abdullah was speaking during the obituary references on the second day of the Assembly.
Members of the House paid tribute to 57 former Jammu and Kashmir legislators, including Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani, and prominent national politicians who had passed away since 2018, the year of the last Assembly session in the erstwhile state.
Vajpayee was the prime minister from 1998 to 2004 and had based his Kashmir policy on three principles: insaniyat (humanity), jamhooriyat (democracy) and Kashmiriyat (cultural values of Kashmiris).
“He is no more and we lost our way,” Abdullah said on Tuesday.
The chief minister also praised the former prime minister for his going to Pakistan’s Lahore and visiting the Minar-e-Pakistan in 1999.
The Minar-e-Pakistan is a national monument in Lahore built in the 1960s to commemorate the Lahore Resolution, which led to the creation of Pakistan.
“At the border, he [Vajpayee] maintained that we can change friends but not neighbours,” said Abdullah. “He said dialogue is the way out and extended the hand of friendship despite the setbacks. I have worked...
