Plans to take over Jammu and Kashmir Bank in pipeline for long, says Farooq Abdullah

by Abbas Adil

Reacting on the recent controversy over the J&K Bank, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said that the moves to take over the institution have been in pipeline for a long time.
“The moves to take over the J&K Bank have been in pipeline for a long time. They haven’t succeeded till then but probably in the governor’s rule they thought they will succeed,” said Abdullah while talking to the reporters on the side-lines of a function marking 36th annual day of SKIMS at SKICC.
sent those reports to them and I am glad that the deputy chairman planning commission spoke to me on the phone and said his information was wrong,” he said.
Abdullah said that the autonomy of the bank should not be fiddled with.
“But any government that will come after governor’s rule is over will have to look into this. Nothing should be done to the autonomy of JK bank,” he said.
Earlier, in his speech, Abdullah said that time has come for the resolution of Kashmir issue.
“I see a change between the Indian and Pakistani leaders…I am quite confident that time has come and that is why probably God has kept me alive to see solution emerging to this problem of our state and I hope we have peace which we all want,” he said.

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