Srinagar, Oct 18: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said his government will revoke the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA) as soon as the Union territory gets statehood.

“To remove it (the PSA), we should have a status of the state. Security and law and order should be with the elected government. The day these powers are vested with us, I will not even wait for the assembly session; we will remove this law through an ordinance,” Abdullah told reporters here.

He said when he released the election manifesto last year, some journalists pointed out that the Union territory does not have the powers to carry out some of the tasks that were mentioned in the manifesto.

“At that time, I told you that we have this information. We cannot fulfil some of the promises as

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