SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday stated he was prepared for recent elections and wouldn’t thoughts shedding his chair, if the Centre restored statehood. “I’ve no attachment to my chair,” he instructed reporters after teeing off at a golf occasion in Gulmarg.Reacting to media reviews suggesting that the Centre could think about restoring statehood to J&Ok within the coming months, however on the situation of holding recent elections, the CM stated: “I do know the place such tales are coming from. It was planted to create concern amongst MLAs in order that they’d say, ‘Allow us to proceed for 5 years’. However, statehood is just not for MLAs, neither is it for govt; it’s for the individuals of J&Ok.”Omar stated Nationwide Convention wouldn’t turn into an impediment to restoration of statehood, even when it meant dissolving the present meeting. “If the message is that the Meeting can be dissolved for statehood to be restored, then so be it,” he stated. “The day you restore statehood to J&Ok, the very subsequent day we are going to ask the governor to dissolve the Meeting.”“Statehood is our constitutional and political proper,” Omar asserted. “It can’t be used as a bargaining chip. Don’t threaten us by way of planted tales.”His father and NC president Farooq Abdullah, who was in Anantnag on Tuesday, stated J&Ok was downgraded right into a Union Territory (UT) due to its Muslim majority character. There was no justification for revoking the statehood, he added.Addressing social gathering delegates in Dooru space, Farooq stated: “We aren’t enemies of India. We selected to affix India in 1947 when Pakistan was at our doorstep.”The present Meeting in J&Ok was elected in Oct 2024 within the first elections held after J&Ok was stripped of its particular standing in addition to statehood, and was bifurcated into two UTs, in Aug 2019. NC emerged as the one largest social gathering within the 90-member Home.Omar, who was at an award ceremony for golfers and hoteliers at Gulmarg Golf Championship, expressed frustration over the continual closure of vacationer locations in Kashmir, stating that it was not giving good alerts to incoming vacationers.He recalled the previous glory of Gulmarg golf Course, and declared that his govt was decided to make Gulmarg a world-class {golfing} vacation spot as soon as once more.The CM, who additionally holds the tourism portfolio, emphasised the necessity for a tourist-friendly angle. “We should see each vacationer not as a one-time customer, however as a possible repeat visitor. Their satisfaction needs to be our benchmark,” he asserted.