diff --git a/passes/techmap/abc.cc b/passes/techmap/abc.cc
index ea5caaa32..9af012a44 100644
--- a/passes/techmap/abc.cc
+++ b/passes/techmap/abc.cc
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ struct AbcConfig
 	bool map_mux8 = false;
 	bool map_mux16 = false;
 	bool markgroups = false;
-	bool read_blif_m = false;  // Add -m flag to read_blif command
 	pool<std::string> enabled_gates;
 	bool cmos_cost = false;
 	int max_threads = -1;    // -1 means auto (use number of modules)
@@ -993,8 +992,7 @@ void AbcModuleState::prepare_module(RTLIL::Design *design, RTLIL::Module *module
 	log_header(design, "Extracting gate netlist of module `%s' to `%s/input.blif'..\n",
 			module->name.c_str(), replace_tempdir(run_abc.tempdir_name, run_abc.tempdir_name, config.show_tempdir).c_str());
 
-	std::string abc_script = stringf("read_blif%s \"%s/input.blif\"; ", 
-			config.read_blif_m ? " -m" : "", run_abc.tempdir_name);
+	std::string abc_script = stringf("read_blif \"%s/input.blif\"; ", run_abc.tempdir_name);
 
 	if (!config.liberty_files.empty() || !config.genlib_files.empty()) {
 		std::string dont_use_args;
@@ -2092,7 +2090,6 @@ struct AbcPass : public Pass {
 		config.cleanup = !design->scratchpad_get_bool("abc.nocleanup", false);
 		config.show_tempdir = design->scratchpad_get_bool("abc.showtmp", false);
 		config.markgroups = design->scratchpad_get_bool("abc.markgroups", false);
-		config.read_blif_m = design->scratchpad_get_bool("abc.readblifm", false);
 		config.max_threads = design->scratchpad_get_int("abc.max_threads", -1);
 		config.reserved_cores = design->scratchpad_get_int("abc.reserved_cores", 4);