Srinagar, May 3 -- Launching a sharp counter-offensive against National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday asserted that the so-called "mistrust" in Jammu and Kashmir was not a creation of the Centre but a carefully cultivated political weapon of the Abdullah family to shield decades of corruption and misgovernance.

Reacting to Abdullah's recent remarks questioning Delhi's credibility, BJP J&K spokesperson Danish Bhat told news agency Kashmir News Service (KNS) that the political history of the NC is a "trail of ideological reversals," where public sentiment was mobilised for power and discarded at will. He recalled how the party first championed the Plebiscite Front only to later dismis...