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Sheikh Abdullah set up first Sainik colony, says CM Mehbooba Omar, NC in tight spot! 5/30/2016 12:11:42 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 29: Ever since a report appeared in a Kashmir-based daily, that the PDP-BJP Government had accepted the proposal of Sainik Board on sainik colonies in Kashmir, the NC and other Kashmiri parties, including separatists, had been carrying on a misinformation campaign that the state government had conspired against the state to change the demography of Kashmir by settling non-state subjects in the proposed colonies. Kashmir on Thursday even observed bandh on this issue. However, on Saturday Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti called the NC's bluff and told the House that it was his grandfather Sheikh Abdullah who set up the first sainik colony in Jammu and that it was also during the regime of Omar Abdullah that the issue of sainik colony in Kashmir came for discussion. Countering the false propaganda of the NC working president and former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the Legislative Assembly, Mehbooba Mufti said: "The state government has no plans to set up a sainik colony for non-state subjects ex-servicemen. The Sainik Board came into being in 1965 and in 1975 a sainik colony was inaugurated in Jammu city by then Chief Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. In recent past, many meetings of the Sainik Board were conducted following requests that one such colony should be established in the Valley. But, up to this moment, no land, whatsoever, has been identified for this purpose. This issue is being exploited by some people (read Omar Abdullah and ilk) for their own interests". The manner in which she exposed the NC leadership only exposed Omar Abdullah. Perturbed and disturbed as he was, Omar Abdullah interrupted the Chief Minister's speech and said that he never mentioned that the state government was going to allot land to non-state subject ex-servicemen in the Valley". His intervention instead of helping him salvage his position further exposed him. His comment that he never charged the Mufti Government with allotting land to non-state subject ex-servicemen only established that he had actually opposed those ex-servicemen from Jammu province who were desirous of getting a plot in the proposed sainik colony in Kashmir. In other words, his intervention vindicated those in Jammu and Ladakh who held the view that the NC is a rabidly anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh party. His intervention would surely further erode the NC's support-base in Jammu and Ladakh where it is already very unpopular.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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