Farooq Abdullah

While there has been no official word on the agenda of the meeting, reports have suggested that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would urge leaders to cooperate with the delimitation commission and set the electoral process in motion in Jammu and Kashmir.

The meeting on June 24 in New Delhi is being seen as the first crucial step by the Centre aimed at resuming the political process in the UT after the removal of special status to the erstwhile state on August 5, 2019.

While PM Modi is likely to share the blueprint on restoration of J&K's statehood, the talks on restoring Article 370 have been ruled out, the report said.

Among those invited are four former chief ministers -- Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah of the National Conference, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.

There has been no major political activity in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir since abrogation of the Article 370 on August 5, 2019, except the District Development Council (DDC) elections held in November-December last year.

Omar Abdullah was found infected with coronavirus two days after he took the first dose of vaccine.

Party MP Hasnain Masoodi said the petition challenging the ED order was filed before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on March 4. It is scheduled to come up for hearing on March 5.

Expressing dissent or views that are different from the opinion of the government cannot be seditious, the Supreme Court said.

Omar Abdullah, son of the NC president, took to Twitter to thank the doctors and other staff at the hospital for administering the vaccine to his father.

In a series of tweets, Omar Abdullah lashed out at the Centre with the "new J&K" jibe, claiming that he, his father and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, his sister and her children were barred from leaving their houses.

Abdullah also asserted that Lord Ram belongs to the whole world. "Ram belongs to all of us. The way Muslims have held on to the Quran, the Quran is not just ours," he said.

The eight-phase DDC election assume significance because it was the first electoral exercise held in Jammu and Kashmir union territory after the abrogation of Article 370 and division of the erstwhile state into two union territories on August 5 last year.

While the book value of these attached properties is Rs 11.86 crore, their market value is about Rs 60-70 crore, PTI sources revealed.

The developments come ahead of the crucial election to the District Development Councils, first polls beginning November 28 in the erstwhile state since the abrogation of Article 370.

National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah has been accused of illegally acquiring government land by misusing the Roshni scheme.

Ansari said that as against religiosity and strident nationalism, patriotism is a more positive concept as it is defensive both militarily and culturally.

"The letter from the Enforcement Directorate came after the Gupkar declaration. It is clear political vendetta after the People's Alliance was formed in Kashmir," a National Conference spokesperson has said.

Farooq Abdullah has been against the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that revokes Jammu and Kashmir's special status.

The statement of Acting Assistant US Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice G Wells came a day after National Conference vice-president Omar was released after charges under the Public Safety Act (PSA), slapped on him in February, were revoked.

The Srinagar parliamentary constituency, which is represented by Abdullah in the Lok Sabha, is spread over the three districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal.