SRINAGAR, Sept 24: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said that an impression was developing in the Union Territory that its statehood will not be restored as the BJP could not win assembly elections last year.

He said BJP was the only party that opposed statehood restoration.

“Sometimes it looks like people of Jammu and Kashmir will not get statehood because the BJP lost the elections. This is an injustice because nowhere was it said that statehood will be restored only if the BJP wins,” Abdullah told media outside his private office here.

“If there is opposition to the restoration of statehood, it is coming only from the BJP,” he said.

Abdullah said the biggest challenge before his 11-month-old government is that Jammu and Kashmir is not a state.

“The way th

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