Jammu, July 13 -- Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday fired fresh salvos at BJP and accused the party for failing to honour its promise to restore statehood in Jammu and Kashmir.

"An hour's drive from here...at Katra, the PM himself had promised statehood to us. Whenever we ask when J&K would get its statehood back, we are told that it will happen at an appropriate time. But no one tells us when that appropriate time will come or how it will be decided," Omar said during the party's "Delhi Chalo - We Want Our Statehood" rally here.

The rally comes few days ahead of National Conference (NC's) planned Jantar Mantar protest to be held on July 20-first day of Parliament's monsoon session-to demand statehood.

"When the Prime Minister him...