Normalcy in IIOJK is forced, not organic: Omar Abdullah
New Delhi: Chief Minister of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) Omar Abdullah has admitted that the security situation in IIOJK is precarious, despite Indian authorities’ claims of normalcy.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Omar Abdullah made these remarks during the Red Mike Dialogues in New Delhi. He highlighted that the security situation in the disputed territory is far from normal, more than five years after Article 370 was illegally abrogated.
Omar Abdullah stated that the normalcy in IIOJK, as claimed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Delhi, is not organic but forced.
“If what is happening in IIOJK is organic, nothing like it. If it is driven out of fear, then you have a problem,” he said.
Omar Abdullah further stated, “Because you can only control a situation out of fear for a limited time… If people in Delhi believed that it was organic, they wouldn’t have closed Jamia Masjid in Srinagar or prevented the Mirwaiz from taking part in the funeral prayers of his father-in-law. This is because they feared a law and order situation would break out. A law and order situation will break out when normalcy is not organic. It breaks out when normalcy is forced. And therefore, what you have in IIOJK today is forced normalcy,” Abdullah added.
