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SRINAGAR
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi led union cabinet approved Indian Institute of Management (IIM) for winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, former chief minister Omar Abdullah questioned the silence of his successor Ms Mehbooba Mufti.
In a scathing attack, Omar wrote on social networking site, Twitter, “I realise that @MehboobaMufti has had to sell out her political agenda to remain in power but I didn’t realise she’s sold her soul also!!!”
The Union Cabinet approved the establishment and operationalization of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Jammu in a transit/temporary campus at Old Government College of Engineering & Technology from the Academic Year 2016-17. The project will involve a cost of Rs 61.90 crore in temporary campus for the initial four years from 2016 to 2020.
In a veiled attack on the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Omar questioned the silence of “those who called for balanced regional development in J&K”.
The student strength intake for this year in the Post Graduate Diploma Programme (PGDP) in Management is 54 which will progressively go up to a cumulative student strength of 120 in the 4th year.
Omar referred to AIIMS approval for Kashmir and said, “Jammu agitated, successfully, for its right to be granted one as well. Why this partisanship now?”
He went to slam the PDP-BJP colaition government in J&K for being “partisan”which was “cause of the current situation”.
