Omar to be Kashmir CM for full six years: PM
June 30th, 2011 - 12:23 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said Omar Abdullah would serve his full six-year term as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir because the Congress has not reversed its arrangement with the National Conference on this.
“There was a decision of the Congress high command that they (National Conference) would have a full-term as chief minister. We have not done anything to reverse that decision,” Manmohan Singh said in his interaction with a group of editors.
The prime minister was replying to a question about some Congress leaders in the state demanding a rotational chief ministership.
The Congress and the National Conference jointly rule the state after a split poll verdict in 2009 elections.
Some Congress leaders wanted the party high command to ask Omar Abdullah to to make way for a Congress chief minister as the National Conference leader completes three years next January.
About the latest situation in the terror-riven state, Manmohan Singh said, “We hope Pakistan will leave Kashmir alone, because they have their own share of internal problems.”
He said that despite peace in the state “we have to be on our guard”.
“Tourists are returning. We have to keep our fingers crossed.”
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