J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday (May 11, 2026) met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, with “Statehood status still a part of the process”. Earlier in the day, Mr. Abdullah backed the Centre’s decision to grant the telecom powers to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
The meeting between Mr. Shah and Mr. Abdullah assumed significance because of a long list of pending files submitted by the Union Territory (UT) government for final approval from the Centre.
Identifying the Statehood status as one of the pressing issues, Mr. Abdullah said, “I wish we had got Statehood in one meeting. Then we would have got it long ago. The process is going on, but whenever we meet, I always talk about Statehood,” said Mr. Abdullah.
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A senior National Conference (NC) leader said the absence of Business Rules, which was to be framed as per the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019, was impacting the governance issues ever since an elected government came into being in J&K in 2024, after a gap of six years.
