SRINAGAR, April 29 -- People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader 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 here, Mufti 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 our 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 J-K, from the system," she said.
She alleged that as the head of the Revenue Department, Abdullah issued an order that the digitisation of revenue documents would take place in the ...