“It is all scripted”: Sajad Lone takes a jibe at CM Omar Abdullah

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'Save this institution, please step down. I will the first to follow you'

Muhammad Adnan

Srinagar, July 14: Former minister and Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (PC), Sajad Lone, on Monday took a jibe at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, saying his visit to the Martyrs’ Graveyard was “all scripted.”

Lone, in a post on his official X handle, said he was initially impressed to see Omar Abdullah reach the graveyard.

“For a moment I was impressed. But now that you have given a ball-by-ball commentary of your so-called struggle in reaching the Martyrs’ Graveyard — I will bet my life, it was all scripted,” he wrote on X.

Earlier, CM Omar Abdullah, accompanied by cabinet colleagues and other MLAs, entered the Naqashband Sahab shrine through a side wall to pay tributes to the martyrs.

“I will still say this — the institution of the Chief Minister is much bigger than the person holding the office. Please save this institution. Please step down. I will be the first to follow you,” Lone further wrote on X.

Lone termed the scuffle involving security personnel and the CM as humiliating.

"A security person attempting to grapple or stop a Chief Minister is a humiliation for all of us,” he said. “Don’t set a precedent others will be forced to follow — a precedent of humiliation.”

Calling the events “choreographed” and “predictable,” Lone wrote:

“Stop insulting the intelligence of the common Kashmiri. There are two King’s parties in Kashmir. One gets dramatic access a day before July 13, and the other gets access a day after July 13. Truly magical.”

Earlier, CM Omar Abdullah had posted a video showing police stopping and pushing him.

“This is the physical grappling I was subjected to. But I am made of sterner stuff and was not to be stopped. I was doing nothing unlawful or illegal,” he wrote on X.

He added: “In fact, these protectors of the law need to explain under what law they were trying to stop us from offering Fatiha.”

Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, also condemned the police action.

“What is wrong in visiting the graveyard of martyrs? This is not only unfortunate, it also snatches the democratic right of a citizen. What happened this morning to an elected Chief Minister @OmarAbdullah is unacceptable. Shocking. Shameful,” she wrote on X.