Srinagar, Oct 18 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday strongly asserted that his party National Conference would never join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party to hasten the return of statehood to the Union territory, indicating a refusal to repeat the "mistakes" of the past made by others.

The NC leader claimed that a deal with the BJP for the return of statehood is "out of the question", making reference to the negative consequences of the 2015 PDP-BJP alliance.

"We have already seen how much that (alliance) ruined J-K. It was a useless coalition between the BJP and the PDP in 2015, and we are still reeling from its effects. I have no desire to make the same mistakes that others did," the chief minister told reporters here.

Abdullah also dared the BJP to

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