Omar demands dissolution of Assembly, fresh polls to avoid horse-trading by BJP

Srinagar, Jun 20: Demanding immediate dissolution of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly followed by fresh elections, former chief minister and vice-president of the National Conference (NC) Omar Abdullah said Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) could not be trusted and that the party would indulge in horse trading to form the government.

Taking to micro-blogging site twitter on Wednesday, Mr Abdullah said, “The J&K state Assembly should be dissolved immediately & fresh elections should take place as soon as appropriate. The former DCM has admitted that BJP can’t be trusted not to horsetrade for Govt formation”.

He was reacting to a statement by former Deputy Chief minister and senior BJP leader Kavinder Gupta which reads “I don't think a new govt will be formed anytime soon. Uncertainties are there, but we are working on something & people will get to know about it”.

Mr Abdullah in another tweet said, “Story is true & @HMOIndia didn’t know about the impending demise of the BJP-PDP alliance then the fact that it caught me & my colleagues by surprise is really no big deal”.

He further tweeted “What do you mean “we are working on something”? The only “something” would be to break other parties & make up the numbers to form a BJP Govt. Has the former DCM inadvertently spilled the beans?”.

The Governor rule was imposed yesterday in the state after Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti resigned on Tuesday when BJP pulled out from the coalition government with the PDP.