{"id":26102,"date":"2020-05-27T05:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/ncs-stand-on-august-5-remains-unchanged-omar\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T05:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:55:28","slug":"ncs-stand-on-august-5-remains-unchanged-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26102","title":{"rendered":"NC\u2019s stand on August 5 remains unchanged: Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Clarification comes amid spat between his political adviser Tanvir Sadiq and former legislator Mehdi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah, who has flown to Delhi on Wednesday said he needed a change of scene and reiterated that the party\u2019s stand on August 5, 2019, which saw revocation of Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special status, remained \u201cunchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFinally I am in Delhi for the 1st time since 3rd August 2019. There is nothing political about my visit, whether linked to the matter above or the political advisory council reportedly being formed. I needed a change of scene &amp; some medical follow ups &amp; that\u2019s why I\u2019m here,\u201d tweeted Mr. Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the NC remained committed to challenging what happened on August 5 using all lawful means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On differing views between Mr. Abdullah\u2019s political adviser Tanvir Sadiq and former legislator Agha Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, the NC vice-president said, \u201cBoth are valued colleagues and friends. As far as I am concerned that both are entitled to an opinion and to disagree with each other. Neither views, expressed in a private capacity, change the stand NC has taken in the SC and outside regarding the August 5,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Sadiq and Mr. Mehdi bickered publicly, with the latter questioning the silence of the party on revocation of special status and focussing on the domicile laws. \u201cWe are a democratic party and we value all shades of opinion within our wider family though sometimes it\u2019s better to discuss them amongst ourselves before we decide to make them public. I\u2019ve burnt my hands a few times by not following my own advice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources in the NC said Mr. Abdullah was likely to meet opposition leaders, including the Congress, in coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ncs-stand-on-august-5-remains-unchanged-omar\/article31683008.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarification comes amid spat between his political adviser Tanvir Sadiq and former legislator Mehdi National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah, who has flown to Delhi on Wednesday said he needed a change of scene and reiterated that the party\u2019s stand on August 5, 2019, which saw revocation of Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special status, remained \u201cunchanged.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26102","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\/26102","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=26102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}