At a rally in Jammu on Saturday, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah urged the National Conference (NC) and Congress to cease what he described as misleading statements about the issue of statehood. In response, NC chief Farooq Abdullah asserted on Sunday that the NC-Congress alliance is poised to win the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and will work towards restoring statehood.
Farooq Abdullah, alongside his son Omar Abdullah, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, and Rahul Gandhi, recently met in Srinagar. Abdullah’s comments were a direct rebuttal to Shah’s remarks from the previous day, in which Shah had addressed a BJP rally in Jammu.