Srinagar: Peoples Conference (PC) President and Handwara MLA Sajad Gani Lone on Monday accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and National Conference (NC) legislators of deliberately derailing the Assembly’s discussion on the Waqf Bill.
Lone said the disruption was scripted to prevent the passage of a resolution that would have held political significance for Muslims in India.
Referring to the statement made by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, wherein he admitted his party legislators committed a mistake by filing the Waqf Bill discussion under an adjournment motion instead of a government resolution, Lone, in a detailed post on X said, reminded Abdullah that he had already pointed out the same procedural error on April 7, but was shouted down by NC legislators.
“What CM sahib has said today, I had already tweeted on April 7. And for saying the same, the NC members used all possible political pejoratives against me,” he wrote.
Lone accused the ruling party of showing political nonchalance toward the Waqf Bill and called it a “criminal” act. He questioned the conduct of over 50 NC legislators who, he said, disrupted the Assembly proceedings for three consecutive days.
“Are you telling us that collectively the Speaker, the Chief Minister, and all NC legislators and lawyers could not notice for three days that they were making a mistake?” Lone wrote. “Are you telling us that the collective IQ of your legislators is such that a glaring mistake staring at their faces for three days was unnoticeable by them?”
He alleged that the Assembly protest was not a mistake but a deliberate move by the ruling party to block a resolution.
Hitting directly at CM, he wrote: “This was your script. The whole song and dance performance was orchestrated by you. You did not want a resolution from the J&K Assembly,” he said.
Lone said a resolution from Jammu and Kashmir would have carried weight and sent a strong message, but the government ensured that no such opportunity was allowed. “You were not interested in passing the resolution and did not allow the tiny opposition to even make a statement,” he said.
He also questioned the Chief Minister’s absence during the days of disruption. “Where were you for three days? I know for some time you were in the Tulip Garden,” he wrote.
Lone demanded an apology from the Chief Minister and called for an emergency one-day session of the Assembly.
