Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah urged the Union Government on Sunday to put people at the center of its policy in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Abdullah was refering to ‘delay’ in granting statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and recent developments over statehood demands in Ladakh.

“You want to own the people, own the people. Then it's not about the land, it's about people. It's not about Kashmir, it's about Kashmiris. It is about people of Jammu and Kashmir. If you make that small difference in the nomenclature, it's going to make huge difference on the ground,” Abdullah said speaking at a book launch in Delhi on Sunday.

Abdullah's comments came days after climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was detained under the provisions of the National Security Act (NSA) over the recent pro

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