{"id":16215,"date":"2019-01-29T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16215"},"modified":"2019-01-29T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:12:05","slug":"forthcoming-elections-crucial-for-states-identity-omar-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16215","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming elections crucial for state\u2019s identity: Omar Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOnly a democratically elected government can resolve development needs of state\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Beerwah, Jan 29:<\/i><\/strong> Jammu and Kashmir National conference vice President Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that the forthcoming elections are crucial for safeguarding the special status of state besides deciding the scope of development for next half a decade.<\/i>
\nOmar Abdullah who was addressing worker\u2019s convention at Ratsun Beeerwah said, \u201cPeople of the state this time should make clear to those sitting on power corridors in New Delhi how passionately the people of State feel about their identity.\u201d<\/i>
\nOmar said that only a democratic government can satiate the developmental needs of the state, and that governor not being a people\u2019s representative cannot decide on crucial issues that the state is facing.<\/i>
\n\u201cThe mammoth task of putting state back on the track of development which includes giving due representation to Pir Panchal and Chenab regions, infrastructure augmentation in health and education sector, diversification of agriculture can only be executed by a democratically elected government with the active participation of people,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\n\u201cPeople have seen it all how the non participation of NC in the ULB and Panchayat Elections has opened flood gates for such forces as are na\u00efve towards the suffering of people,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\nOmar maintained that people of the state want elections as soon as possible. \u201cPeople don\u2019t want to wait any more for elections. A governor, owing to its non representative character cannot do what a democratically elected government can do,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\nOmar said that he will continue to work for Beerwah constituency and its people. \u201cI am indebted to the people of people for accepting me. Being in opposition I tried my level best to work for the development of the constituency, but I know there is a lot that needs to be done in terms of infrastructure building and ensuring all other amenities to people,\u201d he said adding what good was achieved in terms of development in Beerwah is just a specimen and a speck of what will be done once NC comes to power.<\/i>
\nThe vice President said that he had got RS 50 Crore earmarked for the up gradation of infrastructure vis-\u00e0-vis power-supply in Beerwah but the project was put in cold storage afterwards. \u201cI am aware of the needs of Beerwah and that a lot more is to be done in terms of employment generation. However a lot is to be done in bringing Beerwah on the map of tourism, and augmentation of basic infrastructure,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\n“When in government we will leave no stone unturned to address the developmental demands of the people of Beerwah,” he said.<\/i>
\nOmar said the idea of coalition governments didn\u2019t auger well for our state. \u201cThe example of PDP-BJP government is a case in point. The need of the hour is to pull the state out of chaos and it can only be done by a strong mandated government. NC with its legacy of service and sacrifice bears the panacea of state\u2019s peculiar issues,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOnly a democratically elected government can resolve development needs of state\u201d Beerwah, Jan 29: Jammu and Kashmir National conference vice President Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that the forthcoming elections are crucial for safeguarding the special status of state besides deciding the scope of development for next half a decade. Omar Abdullah who was addressing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}