Amit Shah dismisses Omar Abdullah’s claims of diluting CM’s powers as ‘speculative’

Srinagar, Oct 4: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Friday said that Omar Abdullah’s tweet alleging “that the chief secretary had been assigned the duty to change transaction of business rules of the government to curtail the powers of the chief minister or elected government and assign the same to the Lieutenant Governor” was “speculative” and there was no such proposal.

Abdullah asked the bureaucrats in Jammu and Kashmir to resist any pressure to “further disempower” the incoming elected government.

Shah took to microblogging site X and posted, “Mr @OmarAbdullah’s tweet is misleading and speculative in nature. There is not even an iota of truth, as there is absolutely no such proposal. The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act of 2019 passed by the Parliament of India provides for notifying the transaction of business rules, and the same was notified in the year 2020. The people of J&K have wholeheartedly supported the efforts of the Government of India to bring in a democratically elected government through the historic free and fair election process in which the citizens participated enthusiastically.”