It's BJP, PDP's responsibility to form govt. in J-K: Omar

After resigning as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said that it was now the responsibility of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the BJP to form a government in the state.

"I have submitted my resignation to the governor. It is the responsibility of PDP and BJP to form a government now. Let's see what action they will take," said Abdullah.

"I am going to out of India to meet my parents. It is not the responsibility of the National Conference to form a government. I am also not in the mood to make it easy for other parties to form a government," he added.

Omar, who lost from Sonawar seat but managed to cling on to Beerwah with a slender margin of 1,000 votes, earlier in the day took his party's failure sportingly.

"NC has 15 + 2 and we are very pleased, PDP has 28 and Mufti Sb hasn't been seen, much less heard. Clearly the more you have the more you want," Omar tweeted.

"Expectations were hyped and twisted to such an extent that now 17 feels like a victory and 28 a defeat. Go figure!" he added in his tweet.

On Tuesday, Jammu and Kashmir gave a highly-fractured verdict in which the PDP emerged the single largest party throwing up different possibilities in government formation.

The ruling National Conference suffered a defeat when it secured only 15 seats against 28 it had won in the last elections. Its partner in the government Congress slipped to the fourth position getting only 12 seats.