Jammu, March 29 -- Cutting across party lines, members from the treasury and opposition benches on Saturday unanimously condemned recent assassination bid on the life of National Conference (NC) president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and demanded a judicial probe by a sitting judge of high court (HC).

The NC veteran was attacked by 63-year-old Kamal Singh Jamwal during a wedding reception at Greater Kailash locality here on March 11. Abdullah had a miraculous escape when Jamwal opened fire from point-blank while the politician was leaving the function.

Members from NC, Congress, PDP, BJP, CPI (M), People's Conference besides independents condemned the assassination bid in unequivocal terms. While some of the members from NC...