Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday that he is “seriously considering” joining the petitions filed in the Supreme Court for the restoration of statehood to the Union Territory.

“I have had conversations with very senior lawyers in both J&K and Delhi about the possibility of becoming a party to this case, as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, because I don’t think anybody else understands the disadvantages that we are put through by being a Union Territory more than I do,” Omar said at a press conference in Srinagar.

Emphasising that he is uniquely placed to join the legal battle for restoration of statehood, he explained, “I am the only person in the entire country with this experience of having been chief minister of J&K as a state and now as CM of a UT

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