Soz’s AFSPA remarks would strengthen my resolve to scrape law: Omar

Srinagar, KMW News): Expressing satisfaction over the Pradesh Congress Chief Prof Saif ud din Soz’s fresh statement on revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday said that Soz’s stand on the issue would help him (Omar) to convenience the centre in a better way.
“I am glad to know that Prof Soz also is reading the same lines which I have been picking up from the ground,” Omar told reporters on the sidelines of a function at Ganderbal on Tuesday.
According to KMW, the Chief Minster said that the Congress state Chief and he were on the same page in terms of the AFSPA revocation, which would certainly put more weight on his endeavors to partially revoke the controversial Act from selective areas of the state.” Omar also said that he doesn’t want to politicize the issue and would urge others also to do the same.
“I won’t politicize it, neither should anyone else,” he said. The Chief Minster’s remarks have come a day after Soz said that the time has come when the debates on the revocation of AFSPA should end and the final decision on the issue was now inevitable.
“I believe the stage of discussion is over and it is time to act now by lifting the law from some areas,” Soz had told reporters on the sidelines of a function on Monday.
“AFSPA revocation should not be politicized. I am not asking to scrap the Act from entire J&K. But there are some areas where peace has returned permanently and where land has become fertile,” Soz’s statement comes a day after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s assertion that National Conference and Congress were on the same page on AFSPA revocation.
The PCC chief said Chief Minister Omar Abdullah should take up the issue of revocation of AFSPA in the Unified Headquarters meeting. “He is the head of UHQ and he should take up the issue there,” Soz added.