Jammu, April 29 -- A visibly upset chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday read out names of the 26 people who were killed in the terrorist attack and said he will not cite the Pahalgam incident to the Centre to push for Jammu and Kashmir's statehood.

On August 5, 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre had revoked Article 370 and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union territories-J&K and Ladakh.

"The security in J&K is not the responsibility of the elected government, but I will not cite Pahalgam attack to demand statehood. How can I push for statehood now. I don't want such cheap politics at this stage. Is there no value of the 26 lives lost. There is no demand of statehood, no business rules... only soli...