‘If we had walked on path Vajpayee charted…’: In J&K Assembly, Omar Abdullah’s praise for former PM

“I believe, if we had walked connected the way that was charted by Vajpayee ji, we wouldn’t person been successful the concern that we are successful close now,” Abdullah said successful the House. “He is nary much and we mislaid our way.”

He praised Vajpayee for going to Lahore and visiting Minar-e-Pakistan, which was “difficult for immoderate Indian person to do”.

“At the border, helium (Vajpayee) maintained that we tin alteration friends but not neighbours. He said dialog is the mode retired and extended the manus of relationship contempt the setbacks,” Abdullah said. “I person worked with him arsenic a minister… He ever tried to amended the concern successful Jammu and Kashmir… Whenever the concern successful Jammu and Kashmir worsened, helium said that dialog is the mode forward.”

Abdullah said that Vajpayee opened cross-border roads to get radical closer. The roads are present closed and attempts are being made to support america apart, helium said.

Vajpayee’s committedness to physique bridges and foster relationships, helium said, “should animate america to proceed moving towards bid and knowing successful the region”.

He besides made a notation of BJP person and Nagrota legislator Devender Singh Rana, who passed distant past week. Rana was a adjacent adjutant of Abdullah earlier helium switched to the BJP 2 years ago.

While the members paid tributes to the erstwhile legislators who passed during the past six years, 2 legislators – National Conference’s Bashir Ahmad Veeri and Peoples Democratic Party’s Rafiq Ahmad Naik – made a notation of Hurriyat person Geelani, who died successful September 2021. The Hurriyat patriarch was a three-time legislator from Sopore – successful 1972, 1977 and 1987 – earlier helium resigned from the assembly successful 1989 to spearhead a Separatist movement.