As the last few days of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly’s just concluded budget session were marred by ruckus over the controversial Waqf (Amendments) Bill 2025, the opposition BJP on Saturday alleged that normal business in the House was deliberately disturbed by the treasury benches to run away from discussion on vital public issues.
Srinagar:As the last few days of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly’s just concluded budget session were marred by ruckus over the controversial Waqf (Amendments) Bill 2025, the opposition BJP on Saturday alleged that normal business in the House was deliberately disturbed by the treasury benches to run away from discussion on vital public issues.
Senior party functionary and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Sunil Sharma while addressing a press conference here said, “The National Conference (NC) members did not allow the House to function during the last three days of the budget session. The BJP wanted to raise important issues concerning the people, but they created chaos and did not let us speak.” He added, “It was deliberate on their part. They ran away from discussions on important issues and instead made hollow promises thus failed the people of J&K”.
Mr. Sharma said that the NC government’s record is “full of betrayals”. He said that it had promised to provide one lakh jobs to the youth of the Union territory whereas not even half of these have materialized in the past six months. “Also, its promise of 200 units of free electricity to all households turned out to be a lie, as only AAY ration card holders—a very small percentage of the population—benefit from this scheme”, he said.
He accused the NC of also fooling daily wagers by promising their regularization “but its government is not taking any concrete steps in that direction. He added, “The NC’s manifesto is nothing but a bundle of lies.
He said that when the NC government was in power, schools, hospitals and government buildings were burnt. “NC says that 10,000 of its workers were killed. But they were killed during NC governments when Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah were heading the home department. Ever since law and order came under the Union Home Ministry, not a single NC worker has been killed,” he added.
The BJP leader claimed that the restoration of J&K’s statehood is the narrative of his party and not that of the NC. “Therefore, Omar Abdullah should not mislead the people. It will be restored at an appropriate time, but not through religious sloganeering inside the Assembly,” he said, strongly condemning the NC leaders’ “attempts to provoke communal sentiments in the Legislative Assembly”. He asserted, “Assembly is a place for policy and debate, not for inciting divisions. Such behaviour only proves that the NC is trying to create communal rifts for political gain.” Pertinently, amid the ruckus over the Waqf (Amendments) Bill, one of the NC members, Salman Sagar had on April 7 climbed a table to chant “Nara-e Takbeer Allahu Akbar (A cry of God is the greatest).” He and another NC member Aijaz Jan tore up the question papers and threw them in the air.
While reacting to Mr. Sharma’s claims and allegations made by him, NC chief spokesperson and lawmaker Tanvir Sadiq said the BJP leader had likely been scolded by his party leadership in Delhi for failing spectacularly as an opposition leader in the J&K Assembly.“Two press conferences in two days, and the BJP’s Leader of the Opposition still can’t manage to explain anything, looks like he’s been scolded by Delhi and his own party for failing spectacularly as an opposition leader in the assembly!”, Mr. Tanvir wrote on ‘X’.
Challenging the logic of Mr. Sharma that around 10,000 NC workers were killed when Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah headed the Home Department, he said, “One of these days, we might just expose the full extent of his nonsense. But for now, let’s address his latest gem: blaming the NC for the deaths of NC workers during our government. By that logic, is the BJP responsible for every single security force casualty from 2019 till today — including the tragic martyrdom of a JCO (Kuldeep Chand who was killed while fighting infiltrating militants along the Line of Control) just now? May he RIP. Whose failure is it then, LOP Sahab?” End it.
