'Not horse trading? Dissolve the Assembly then', says Omar Abdullah after Ram Madhav asks why he's scared

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) chief Omar Abdullah has reiterated that the state's assembly should be dissolved and has cited his scepticism over the BJP potentially engaging in horse-trading as the reason -- this after BJP leader Ram Madhav said that there was no question of his party horse-trading.

On Wednesday, in response to former J&K Deputy CM Kavinder Gupta saying that he didn't think that a new government would be formed anytime soon and that they (his party - BJP) were working on something, Omar Abdullah had Tweeted the following:

He added:

On Thursday, in response to Omar Abdullah, BJP's Ram Madhav said:

"Why is he (Omar Abdullah) so scared? I'm sure his party men are loyal to him. There is no question of horse-trading from our side. We've seen what kind of horse-trading happened in J&K under his party, no body should forget the history."

Citing this, Omar Abdullah has written:

"I have no doubt about my MLAs but we all know what happened in the PDP after Mufti Sb died & the sort of pressure that was applied to Mehbooba Mufti."

He added:

"Then why not dissolve the assembly? If @rammadhavbjp is true to his word that there is no question of horse trading & clearly no new alliances are being formed then the assembly should be dissolved. Keeping it suspended has encouraged dalals."

The back-and-forth and allegations of horse trading come after the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP government fell as a result of the latter party withdrawing support for the alliance. Governor's rule has been imposed in the state and advisors have been appointed to aid him.