The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly passes a statehood resolution moved by Omar Abdullah, according to reports from both outlets. The proceedings take place amid protests and disruptions from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which keeps members out of the house and objects to aspects of the resolution text.
NDTV reports that BJP MLAs enter the well of the house, shouting slogans calling for the sacking of Omar Abdullah’s government and for removing Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather, before walking out. Scroll.in adds that BJP members object to the inclusion of a reference to an earlier 2000 autonomy resolution within the newly adopted resolution.
Together, the reports describe a resolution being approved while the opposition alleges procedural and substantive issues with the draft and links their protest to broader demands against Abdullah’s administration and the Speaker. The core dispute across accounts centres on the resolution’s wording and the political confrontation in the chamber during the vote.
