Overview
- Omar Abdullah, speaking at a Nowshera rally on Monday, pressed the BJP-led government to stop saying restoration will happen at the “right time” and to give a clear timetable.
- He said the BJP itself set a three-step sequence and argued those steps are done, citing completed delimitation and both parliamentary and assembly elections in 2024.
- He noted more than a year and a half has passed since the elected government took office and asked what conditions remain before powers return to the region.
- Abdullah alleged the delimitation that added seven seats favored the BJP, with six of those reportedly won by the party, and he questioned the timing of women’s reservation moves without a fresh census.
- He added that results did not fully match those designs, pointing to Surender Chaudhary’s victory, and framed the demand against the 2019 downgrade to a Union Territory and repeated but still undefined central pledges.