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Omar Abdullah Launches Territorywide Signature Campaign to Restore Jammu & Kashmir Statehood

The eight-week door-to-door drive aims to counter the Supreme Court’s Pahalgam reference by taking public endorsements directly to the apex court then to Delhi.

Manish Tewari supports Omar Abdullah’s critique of J&K’s governance, calling the dual administration system “structurally built for failure.
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The launch of a signature campaign for statehood restoration by J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah has drawn sharp criticism from leaders of various political parties terming it as shameful. (ANI File)

Overview

  • Chief Minister Omar Abdullah launched an eight-week door-to-door signature drive across all 90 assembly constituencies to gather endorsements for restoring Jammu & Kashmir’s pre-2019 statehood.
  • He argued that popular demand should not be judged through a security prism after the Supreme Court remarked that incidents like the Pahalgam attack must factor into statehood decisions.
  • The Supreme Court ordered the Centre to respond to statehood petitions within eight weeks, adding legal urgency to Abdullah’s mass mobilization plan.
  • PDP’s Waheed Para and Peoples Conference chief Sajad Lone criticized the campaign as a token gesture and urged passage of a formal assembly resolution to lend constitutional dignity to the statehood appeal.
  • The signature drive has exposed rifts among regional parties over tactics to pressure New Delhi and underscored public dissatisfaction with dual governance under the union territory arrangement.