Failure to follow Vajpayee’s ‘road map’ led to J&K’s downgrade: Omar

In the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah praised former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s vision for the region, suggesting that the 2019 abrogation of Article 370 might have been avoided had Vajpayee’s roadmap been followed. Abdullah lamented the current state of affairs, emphasizing the importance of Vajpayee’s slogan of “Democracy, Kashmiri ethos, and humanity.”