Jammu, May 13 -- Leader of Opposition Sunil Kumar Sharma on Wednesday said that Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather's decision to hand over the chairmanship of eight out of nine House committees to MLAs of the ruling National Conference-led alliance smacks of a move to turn the J&K Assembly into the National Conference's headquarters, Nawai Subah.

In a statement, Sunil Sharma said that the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly belongs to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and that the BJP will resist any move to turn it into the fiefdom of any party.

"The decision to appoint eight MLAs of the ruling party as heads of the committees is totally unjustified and an insult to the mandate of people of J&K " he said, adding that the universally accepted principle of p...