Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir

Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Vice President of National Conference party Omar Abdullah walked from his residence to his party headquarters office 'Nawai Subah' on Thursday. Omar alleged that he was denied the security cover to come out of his house as he was scheduled to pay tribute to the martyrs of July 13. 

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"I had no intention to walk to the office today, I am not used to doing drama but today they forced me to walk to work. They did not give me the security to leave my place as I was scheduled to pay tribute to the martyrs of July 13. I will have to do such things if they don't allow me," said Abdullah.  

He also said that the governments keep on changing. If this government changed the holiday of July 13 Martyrs' Day, then a new government can change it too. "The governments change, the decisions change. I am sure this phase will change too, like the way they cancelled the holiday of 1931 Martyr's Day, I am sure the new government will change this and other holidays too," he said. 

While responding to the question about the future of Jammu and Kashmir, Abdullah said, "They (BJP) can't ruin our future more, the supreme court has said that political affidavits will not have any impact on the final verdict. The day judges were brought here, this Gupkar Road was closed. If LG's cavalcade has to move, the whole traffic is brought to stand still. Is this what we call normal? Even for the empty cars which go to fetch LG from the airport, they stop the traffic, is that normal?"  

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Omar alleged that BJP is trying to distort the history of India. "There is an attempt to distort the history of India, why would they not distort the history of J&K, look at the way entire chapters have been deleted from textbooks. The writers want to withdraw their names as history is being changed," he added. 

The LG administration put up restrictions at the graveyard in old Srinagar where martyrs of 1931 are buried. The chief ministers of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir used to visit the martyr's graveyard on 13 July to pay tributes to the martyrs. 

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