Every promise by PDP-BJP govt officially abandoned: NC

Srinagar, Apr 28: The National Conference today hit out at Mehbooba Mufti, alleging that she is interested in remaining the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir despite the "humiliating snub" by her allies on Kashmir issue.

"Mehbooba Mufti will have to ask her own conscience why she is continuing as the chief minister for even one more day now. Every promise the PDP-BJP government made has been officially abandoned by the BJP without any scope for review," the NC's state spokesperson Junaiz Azim Mattu said in a statement here.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has said in the Supreme Court that "the government would come to the negotiation table only if the legally recognised stakeholders participate in the dialogue and not with the separatist elements who rake up the issue of accession or Azadi in Kashmir."

"This was another clear and humiliating snub to Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti," Mattu said.

"It was now unambiguously clear that Mehbooba had become an insult-proof politician solely interested in remaining in her chair regardless of how she is mistreated and ridiculed by her own allies," the NC leader alleged.

"We reiterate our demand that New Delhi should waste no time in initiating open-ended, comprehensive and sustained dialogue both with Pakistan and the Hurriyat Leadership in Kashmir in a sincere effort to resolve the political issue," he said.