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Peerzada Ashiq

J&K L-G inventing surveys to ‘perpetuate his rule’: Omar Abdullah

J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s has been sharply criticised by political parties for claiming that 80% of people wanted the L-G administration to continue.

“Meet the new king of J&K who is so desperate to remain the uncrowned ruler that he now invents surveys to justify his unwillingness to conduct assembly elections,” former J&K chief minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said. 

He said India was truly the “mother of democracy” and we in J&K her orphan children. “Perhaps this is the logic BJP will start using to stop having elections nationwide - One Nation, No Election,” Mr. Abdullah added.

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