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Abdullah Congratulates Modi, Questions Government Response to CEC Allegations

Abdullah Congratulates Modi, Questions Government Response to CEC Allegations
Omar Abdullah congratulates PM Modi on 25 years of electoral wins, questions government response to CEC allegations · wionews.com

Omar Abdullah congratulated Narendra Modi for winning elections over 25 years.

He said it is hard to keep winning for such a long time.

Abdullah also spoke about allegations involving the Chief Election Commissioner.

The government had called some allegations “fabrication.”

Abdullah asked why it had not taken legal action against the people who shared them.

He also mentioned a newspaper report about the issue.

He said he had not seen that a defamation case had been filed against the newspaper.

Abdullah questioned whether the lack of legal action meant the report was accurate.

Key facts

Speaker
Omar Abdullah, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Congratulated
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Electoral milestone
25 years of electoral victories at state and national levels
Setting
A major sporting event in the Kashmir Valley
Controversy
Allegations and reports involving the Chief Election Commissioner
Abdullah's question
Why the government had not taken legal action against those who brought the allegations into the public domain
Newspaper report
Abdullah said he had not seen a defamation suit filed over the report

Quotes

Omar Abdullah

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister

“You have been standing there. You must have done something that people kept voting for you repeatedly. It is not easy to keep winning elections for 25 years—first at the state level and then at the central level.”
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“You called it fabrication. If it is fabrication, then why doesn’t the government take action against those who brought all this into the public domain?”
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