National conference leader Omar Abdullah on Monday said the Supreme Court\u2019s verdict on Article 370 was a defeat for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. He said it is a setback but the struggle doesn\u2019t end. The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the validity of the Centre\u2019s decision to abrogate Article 370 of the constitution that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. While speaking to the media on the top court\u2019s verdict, former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said it is a defeat for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said this is not a personal loss or a defeat for the National conference, but it is a collective loss. Abdullah added that in pror court judgements by 3-judge benches, the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and permanency of Article 370 was upheld. He said in the past they had convinced the Supreme Court, but this time they could\u2019nt. He said it is a setback but the struggle does\u2019nt end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When he was asked about Union Home Minister\u2019s claim that Article 370 incentivised terrorism in the valley, Abdullah said in that case terrorism should have started in 1947 and not in 1987. He further raised concerns over the deaths of army officers and police personnel in encounters with militants in the valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omar Abdullah also questioned why the Supreme Court didn\u2019t announce a timeline for statehood as they did for holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir. When Abdullah was asked about the positive changes in the last four years, since the removal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, Abdullah said the state had seen no economic growth and no inclusivity since August 5. He added other than the slight boost in tourism in some areas, there had been no economic growth since 2019. Omar Abdullah claimed they were put under house arrest by the police before the Supreme Court gave its verdict on pleas challenging article 370.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abdullah said this is not a personal loss or a defeat for the National conference, but it is a collective loss. He added that in pror court judgements by 3-judge benches, the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and permanency of Article 370 was upheld. He said in the past they had convinced the Supreme Court, but this time they could\u2019nt. He said it is a setback but the struggle does\u2019nt end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":495981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Omar Abdullah says Supreme Court verdict on Article 370 is a defeat for people of Jammu and Kashmir","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[99054,161280,3239],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/12111315\/omar-abdullah-_1_.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495979"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=495979"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=495979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}