NEW DELHI: The ban on prepaid SMSes in Jammu and Kashmir is unlikely to be lifted in the near future, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah hinted today.
“The ban on SMS on prepaid connections is because of this problem of mass messages being used to spread rumours. Nothing so far has suggested that this disease has been cured,” Omar told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
He said the state government was working with the Centre to find a way for lifting the ban but prevent sending mass messages.
“We are working with the government of India to figure out a way whereby the ban on prepaid SMS can be lifted but at the same time multiple SMSes can be stopped,” he said.
Responding to a question, Omar said he would raise the issue of Kashmiri students studying outside the state facing difficulty in acquiring SIM cards at the forthcoming internal security conference in Delhi”
“On June 5, there is an internal security conference to be chaired by the Prime Minister and called by the (Union) Home Minster. I will raise this issue … All state chief ministers will be present there and I will ask them to resolve this issue,” he added.
Omar said the UPA government at the Centre should not be linked with the IPL spot fixing scandal as it had nothing to do with it.
Responding to a question about involvement of UPA members in the spot-fixing scandal, Omar suggested that the ruling alliance at the Centre was unnecessarily linked to every wrong that takes place in the country.
What are you talking about? Wherever you see any wrongdoing, you bring the UPA into it, he said. UPA government cannot be held responsible for every wrong. I would raise the issue on pre paid mobile Short Message Service (SMS) in the internal security conference.
There is no fault of UPA government in IPL scam. We can hold it responsible for other things. It is players who had received the bribe for match mixing and we cannot hold it responsible for it. People gambled on it, Omar, whose National Conference is part of the UPA, said.
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