New Delhi, October 15: Lending support to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today said he found nothing wrong in his statement that the state had acceded and not merged with the Union of India.
“I don’t think Omar Abdullah has said anything objectionable. It is a fact that Jammu and Kashmir has acceded to India just like Mysore acceded to India,” Krishna said here when asked how he saw the Chief Minister’s statement recently.
Krishna, during an interaction with a group of journalists, noted that like in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the Maharaja of Mysore had also signed an accession treaty “and I am a citizen of Mysore”.
Abdullah had said in the Assembly that the state had only acceded and not merged with Union of India and could not be compared to Junagarh and Hyderabad.
–PTI