Jammu, July 22 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday criticised chief minister Omar Abdullah for going to Delhi to participate in the National Conference's (NC) protest for statehood despite the adverse conditions in the Union Territory following recent weather related incidents.

"The CM should have been standing with the grieving families and supervising the ongoing rescue operations instead of staging a political protest in New Delhi. Even today, several bodies remain buried under debris in the flood-ravaged areas of Poonch and Rajouri, but the ruling party appears more interested in political optics than addressing the humanitarian crisis," said leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Sunil Sharma during a...