Sajad Lone reminds CM Omar Abdullah of electoral promise of establishing Law University in Budgam

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SRINAGAR, JANUARY 14 (STC): Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference President and MLA, Sajad Lone, called upon Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to honor his electoral promise of establishing a Law University in Budgam.
He launched a pointed critique of what he described as Jammu’s “obsessive” opposition to development projects in the Kashmir Valley.
Addressing the commitment made during the recent Budgam Assembly bye-elections, Lone stressed the importance of institutional credibility. “The sanctity of the institution of the Chief Minister demands that he lives up to his promise and see it through,” he stated, emphasizing the pledged university’s proposed location in Budgam.
The PC chief spoke with uncompromising candor regarding resistance from Jammu to Kashmir-centric initiatives. “I hope Jammu prospers. But this obsession with opposing anything and everything that Kashmir wants is more an issue of lunacy. They have an IIM. What is wrong if a Law University comes to Kashmir?” he questioned.
Lone further suggested the administrative relationship between the two regions may need fundamental reconsideration. “Maybe the time has come for an amicable divorce. It is not only about developmental matters. Jammu has become the proverbial stick to beat the Kashmiri with,” he said.
He accused certain Jammu-based voices of “selective courage,” alleging silence when the Union government “took away everything from them, diverted business, even took away the Darbar Move,” while demonstrating fervor “only against their own Kashmir region.”
He argued that the integration of Kashmir with the rest of India cannot be achieved through intermediaries who persistently malign the region. “If Kashmir is to integrate with the rest of the country, it will have to be done without the thrusted service of touts. We cannot have a region slandering Kashmiris non-stop and petitioning the rest of the country that only one region in J&K is with the country and that the other is a terrorist region,” he asserted.
MLA Handwara further suggested public sentiment in Kashmir towards the inter-regional dynamic has shifted profoundly. “I think the people of Kashmir too can’t take it anymore. Talk of reservations and the Kashmiris are crowded out. I am sure the desire for divorce is much, much higher in Kashmir than it ever was. We need leadership to call a spade a spade,” he added.
(Straight Talk Communications)