JAMMU, July 13: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said he was "honoured" to receive legal notice from BJP and said it showed that the party viewed him as a political force it could not ignore.
Omar Abdullah said he had expected the BJP to respond politically to a political statement but accused it of opting for legal action instead.
Omar said " They take political fights and hide behind the courts. I could have made the same statement and hid behind the assembly. I could have taken advantage of the privileges afforded to me by making the statements in the Assembly which cannot be challenged outside the assembly, but I did not."
Omar Abdullah said "One BJP leader has time and again levelled unfounded and slanderous allegations against us, but we have been fighting him politically. Going on now, we will begin the process of sending legal notices to that particular BJP leader and a few other BJP leaders and let's see where this process ends," he said.
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