‘No Such Proposal’: Amit Shah Slams Omar Abdullah Over Claims Of Changing J&K Govt Business Rules

Union Home Ministry on Friday hit out at National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah for spreading misinformation over claims of changing the transaction of business rules of Jammu and Kashmir government, saying that the former chief minister’s claims are misleading as there is no such proposal.

“Mr. @OmarAbdullah’s tweet is misleading and speculative in nature. There is not even an iota of truth, as there is absolutely no such proposal. The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act of 2019 passed by the Parliament of India provides for notifying the transaction of business rules, and the same was notified in the year 2020. The people of J&K have wholeheartedly supported the efforts of the Government of India to bring in a democratically elected government through the historic free and fair election process in which the citizens participated enthusiastically,” the office of Home Minister Amit Shah said in a post on X.

The reaction came hours after Abdullah alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre has already conceded the defeat in the recently held elections and has asked the Chief Secretary to change transaction of business rules to curtail powers of to be newly elected government.

“The BJP has clearly accepted defeat in J&K. Why else would the Chief secretary be assigned the duty to change transaction of business rules of the government to curtail the powers of the Chief minister / elected government and assign the same to the LG?” Abdullah said in a post on X.

The former CM further asked bureaucrats in the erstwhile state to resist any pressure to “further disempower” the incoming elected government. He said that he has received information internal from the civil secretariat about the LG administration’s move.

“This information has come to me from within the Secretariat. Officers would be well advised to resist any pressure to further disempower the incoming elected government,” he added.

The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir wrapped up its first Assembly elections after the abrogation of Article 370 in 10 years with the overall voter turnout settling just under the 2014 mark.

The overall voting for the three phases of J&K elections came to 63.45%, compared to overall figure of 65.84% for the 2014 Assembly elections.

The polling for three-phase polls to the 90-member assembly concluded on Tuesday with the third phase recording 68.72% voter turnout. Phase 1 recorded 61.38% turnout, while phase 2 recorded 57.31% of voter turnout. The counting of votes would be held on October 8.