Srinagar, Oct 8: Leader of Opposition (LoP) in J&K Assembly Sunil Sharma launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, accusing the National Conference (NC) of exploiting the statehood debate to divert public attention from its “tainted legacy of misgovernance, corruption, and civilian oppression.”

Addressing a news conference here, Sharma dismissed CM Omar’s renewed pitch for statehood as a “political stunt aimed at reviving a failed narrative.”

“Do you want statehood to become a tool to justify the killing of innocent Kashmiris?” he said, holding the NC responsible for some of the most turbulent years in J&K’s political history.

Highlighting the NC’s rule between 1982 and 2014, the LoP accused the party of presiding over a period marked by corruption, the use of draconian l

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