SRINAGAR, Apr 29: People’s Democratic Partyleader Iltija Mufti on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of trying to remove the Urdu language from the collective history of Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference ,Iltija claimed the Revenue Department, headed by the chief minister, started the process of removing Urdu from the system in July 2025.
“There is no doubt that government, headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, is trying to gradually remove Urdu, which is the language of every section of society and community in Jammu and Kashmir, from the system, even when all our records from centuries are in Urdu. I want to ask Abdullah, why did he issue such an order? Why impose the Haryana model here and thrust English despite knowing that all documents are in Urdu.”
She also said that Omar’s government also removed the requirement of knowledge of Urdu, for recruitment into the Revenue Department.
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