Spike in terror attacks won’t be justification to delay assembly polls in J-K: Omar Abdullah

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Spike in terror attacks won't be justification to delay assembly polls in J-K: Omar Abdullah



He said there are such forces across the neighbouring country which do not want friendly ties between the two countries.”We know they won’t desist from their activities but somehow we were also found off-guard,” he said, criticising Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for delaying the joint high-level meeting held in Jammu on Saturday to chalk out a strategy to tackle growing terror incidents.Omar said the meeting should have been called a long time after the first terror incident.”Why he waited for so long? It was only after we started raising the concern, the meeting was convened,” he said.Earlier, addressing a gathering, Omar said, “We have to face these forces bravely but this is not expected under their rule.””When they took over from us in January 2015, the situation was altogether different as we had cleared all areas of Jammu region of the scourge of terrorism. Despite their claims post (August) 2019 (when J&K’s special status was revoked and the erstwhile state was bifurcated into two Union Territories), there is no place which is not facing the looming threat of terror attacks,” he said.”Not only they failed to ensure the development of J&K, but our security has also been compromised, which is evident from the attacks, resulting in loss of precious lives of our brave personnel. They are least bothered about all these,” he said.Omar said from Kathua to Reasi and Rajouri to Doda, there hardly passes any day when there is no news of a terror attack on the forces.



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