New Delhi: In view of serious differences between the Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), National Conference (NC) chief Omar Abdullah has said that the fall of Azad government in Jammu and Kashmir is imminent.
Abdullah has predicted mid-term elections in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the people to be prepared for fresh Assembly elections in the state as the Ghulam Nabi Azad-led coalition government would not complete its full term in the office.
''I can swear that the Congress-PDP coalition government will not complete its full term. You have to be ready for fresh elections which will be held within next six months,'' as quoted by UNI, Abdullah told a public gathering in south Kashmir.
Terming the PDP as a ''copy cat'', the NC chief said whatever Pakistan President Pervez Mushharraf preaches, the Muftis and their party follow the suit.
His remarks came amid reports of verbal duel between the Congress and PDP ministers during the Cabinet meeting in Jammu on Monday when the members of the two alliance partners traded charges against each other and exchanged heated words following which the Chief Minister had threatened to dissolve the state Assembly.
Targeting the former Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, he said the PDP patron propagated Indian agenda at the United Nations and fooled people by asserting that he pleaded self-rule proposal.
Abdullah, a former Union Minister of State for External Affairs, said his party had brought the Hizbul Mujahideen on the negotiating table, but with the change of government, all the five militant commanders who held parleys were killed.
Abdullah appealed to both India and Pakistan to take concrete steps for resolution of the contentious Kashmir issue and put an end to the ongoing bloodshed and atrocities in the strife-torn state.
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