Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today accused BJP of “diverting” attention from Narendra Modi who “knowingly or unknowingly misled the people,” on a Bill on the issue of residency of women marrying outside the state.
Omar was responding to BJP's claim that National Conference had “enthusiastically” supported the Bill in the state legislature brought by then ruling PDP which sought to withdraw the status of a permanent resident from a woman who married outside J-K.
BJP leader Arun Jaitley, in a blog post yesterday, wrote that after PDP formed the government in the state in alliance with Congress in 2002, it introduced ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Resident (Disqualification) Bill 2004', which was “enthusiastically” supported by NC.
In a series of Tweets, Omar retorted, saying, “That NC supported a Bill that would have continued the discriminatory framework against women some years ago is a fact, no denying that.
