Srinagar, Oct. 18 -- AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday criticised Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's remarks on scrapping the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), saying that from Sheikh Abdullah to Omar Abdullah, every chief minister had the chance to repeal the law but chose not to.

Owaisi's response came after Omar Abdullah said his government would revoke the PSA once Jammu and Kashmir regains statehood, adding that he would not wait for an assembly session but issue an ordinance to remove it.

Reacting to the statement, Owaisi said the PSA was introduced in 1978 by Sheikh Abdullah to deal with smuggling and that successive chief ministers had continued to use it. "Farooq Abdullah, G. M. Shah, Mufti Sayeed, G. N. Azad, O...