Er Rashid knew about government's plan to revoke A-370 in 2018, claims Omar Abdullah

Srinagar, Sep 28: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president Omar Abdullah Saturday alleged that the Member of Parliament from north Kashmir and the Awami Itehad Party (AIP) chief, Engineer Rashid was aware that the Article-370 will be removed "but kept mum."

"Rashid's silence cost J&K badly," Omar alleged.

Earlier, "it was we, the people of J&K who were the owners of our land, jobs and water but now it is the 1.40 crore people of India who own these things," Omar said as per news agency NVI.

He said if Er Rashid would have broken his silence, perhaps, Supreme Court would have given directions to Centre not to revoke Article 370, claimed Omar.

Omar also attacked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and said that in 2014, the party vowed to keep BJP at bay, but then "sat in the lap of BJP."

"The party ink-pot sign led by the then late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed asked people to vote for it so that BJP doesn’t cross the tunnel. Then what happened, PDP that got 28 seats, sat in the lap of BJP,” he said.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of his political rally, Omar while replying to a query that BJP J&K chief Ravinder Raina has said the BJP’s dream of having Hindu CM in J&K will be fulfilled in these elections, Omar said, "The inputs we have received from Ravinder Raina’s seat (Nowshera) suggest the he has lost his own seat. Let him save his own seat first then talk about Hindu CM,” he said.