Rehan Qayoom Mir
Srinagar, Sept 15 : Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said he is not worried about his MLAs switching sides, asserting that he had faith in them.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event at SKICC, the Chief Minister, according to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said, “I have faith in my MLAs. I am not afraid that my MLAs will move.”
On the BJP’s criticism of the seven-day Assembly session, Omar hit back, saying the government could not be accused of being “non-serious” when BJP members were “hardly seen in Parliament”.
“What is non-serious about it? It’s a seven-day session. It would have been non-serious if we had followed the path shown by the BJP, where they have held one- or two-day sessions in their states,” he said.
“These people never come to Parliament. They are never seen in Parliament,” Omar said.
He said the government sits in the Assembly from morning till evening and maintains its presence during the proceedings. “There is no such day when we ourselves are not present in the Assembly,” he said, adding, “Look at Parliament. Look at who sits for how long. Then you tell me who is taking it seriously and who is not.”
The Chief Minister also said he would not respond to every statement made by his political opponents. “I will react to one of their statements every month. Not every day,” he said.
Taking a dig at his critics, Omar said some commentators were using social media against the government after failing to get government accommodation. “I didn’t give them a job in my government, and now they start writing. Here they are commentators who don’t get a government house, so they use social media against the government,” he said.
“If I had given them a flat in Jawahar Nagar, would they have dared to write like this?” Omar asked, adding that he was not bothered by such “selfishness”.—(KNO)
