Overview
- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah reiterated that no decision has been made on the National Law University’s location and questioned BJP’s equity claims by citing earlier IIT and IIM placements in Jammu.
- BJP leaders R. S. Pathania and Sham Lal Sharma demanded the university be set up in Jammu on accessibility grounds, pledging to oppose any move to place it in Budgam through Assembly action and street protests.
- The BJP has complained to the Election Commission that Abdullah’s earlier Budgam announcement violated the Model Code of Conduct following the Budgam bypoll notification.
- Abdullah said the government will continue last year’s budget framework, noting that major allocations now would lapse in March and larger decisions will shift to the next budget.
- A temporary campus in Ompora, Budgam is planned to start in April 2026, even as the J&K High Court Bar Association at Jammu urged that the permanent headquarters be sited in Jammu for regional balance and better connectivity.