Srinagar, Oct. 26 -- War of words broke out between chief minister Omar Abdullah and People's Conference chairman Sajjad Lone after both accused each other for supporting BJP in Rajya Sabha polls. The National Conference (NC) won three seats, while the BJP managed one. BJP legislator Sat Sharma got 32 votes despite the party having only 28 members in the House. It wasn't clear where the BJP candidate had got the extra four votes from. CM Omar accused Handwara legislator Sajjad Lone for openly supporting BJP by abstaining from voting even as Lone blamed the NC legislators, for "cross voting" and termed the polls as a fixed match between NC and the BJP. "Handwara MLA must have some compulsion, so he abstained as he doesn't want to vote against the BJP. Now as a professor he is releasing big reels. He must have some compulsion. Others who secretly helped should have courageto say they voted for theBJP," Omar told reporters in Srinagar. However, Lone said that NC was hand in glove with the BJP. "It's a case of simple mathematics. NC tried to save the third seat instead of the required fourth. The NC voting pattern was such that even if there had been no cross voting candidate number 4 would have still lost." He said that all the "cross voting" has been done by the National Conference. "I say this with authority," he said, adding that had he not abstained from voting, they (NC) would have blamed him for voting for the BJP. Lone said that seats were never genuinely offered to Congress. "Officially, seat number 4 was presented to them (Congress) but NC ensured it was a setup for their defeat," he said. "Congress could have mustered only around 21 votes. We had already indicated that if Congress had contested seat number three, we would have supported them not due to any leaning, but because they are a national party and could have advocated issues of Kashmiri people better," Lone further added. He said that NC members effectively gifted votes to BJP. "Rejected votes were deliberate, not accidental. This was a calculated, coordinated manoeuvre with Delhi, leaving no space for a fair contest," he said. Lone said that even in the past, NC Rajya Sabha members refrained from taking any extraordinary measures, being consistently preoccupied with trivial personal matters rather than safeguarding the people's mandate. "From day one, their priority will be gaining private access to the Prime Minister or Home Minister. Their approach will be appeasement of Delhi, not representation of Kashmiris. They will advocate harsher measures while shedding crocodile tears here before the people." Lone further said that NC is the only party which before elections accused every other political party as the "agents" of the BJP. "It was fixed match between NC and BJP. Today we have caught NC red-handed sitting in the lap of BJP. Our entire people should know that they had ruined an entire election by voting for the National Conference." When asked regarding Omar's remarks that all NC votes were intact, Lone said, "He spread the same lies during polls and their election promises. Now nobody trusts him." J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that while he is satisfied with the 3-1 scoreline for the National Conference over the BJP in the Rajya Sabha elections, his party faced betrayal from some quarters at the last moment during polling on Friday. In Rajya Sabha polls held after 10 years, the NC bagged three seats, while BJP managed one. However, BJP got 32 votes, more than its own party legislators--28-- on the fourth seat. BJP candidate Sat Sharma won from the seat. Omar said that they have no complaints with the results. "We managed to bag three seats. We fought for fourth seat and tried to make it 4-0. As I said in my X post (on Friday), we faced betrayal from some quarters at the last moment. Almost everyone now knows the names of those who betrayed us. I don't think it is necessary to repeat it here, but it was regrettable." "Those who voted for BJP should have courage to openly admit that they voted for them," he added. The CM, however, expressed satisfaction that all NC votes remained intact and went to the party candidates only. "I thank all those who voted in favour of the NC, especially the Congress and other colleagues. I regret those who betrayed us at the last moment. But I am satisfied that not a single NC vote went to others. All the (NC) voters showed their polling slips to our chief agent, and not a single vote of NC was wasted," the chief minister said. Meanwhile NC president Farooq Abdullah thanked all the political parties that voted for NC, including the Peoples Democratic Party. "Our three MPs won. All our assembly members were united and they (BJP) couldn't break them," he said. Abdullah, who was flanked by three winning candidates, said that they are thankful to PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, Congress, Independent assembly members Shabir Kullay and Sheikh Khursheed and others who must have supported them....