Jammu, Sep 26
Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Thursday that Omar Abdullah after sensing the mood of the people is now saying that his party, National Conference (NC), can form the government in alliance with Congress, a climb down from his earlier stance.
Abdullah, earlier, was claiming that the NC will get a majority and form the government on its own in J&K.
Addressing the media in Jammu, Smriti Irani said the BJP has said from day one that "we will form the government in J&K on our own while Omar Abdullah has shifted his stand from the earlier statement that the NC would form the government in J&K on its own."
“He now says the NC will form the government in alliance with the Congress. Does he sense his defeat now?” Smriti Irani said in reply to a question.
She said that the BJP has said in Parliament and through the Solicitor General in the Supreme Court that "we will restore statehood".
"Congress says they will launch an agitation for statehood to J&K. It is only the BJP government at the Centre that can restore statehood and not the Congress," she said.
“On the issue of restoration of statehood, the Congress stand is of agitation while our stand is of restoration,” she asserted.
She said Rs 84,000 crore worth of investment has come to J&K after the abrogation of Article 370.