SRINAGAR: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said today that theCentre was watching the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as a “mutespectator” and that the BJP was not ready to listen to reason on Kashmir.

“The BJP government at the Centre instead of helping us get out of thisvortex of violence is watching as a mute spectator. They seem to have givenup on the state and have so far failed in bringing in a workable, practicaland sensible way-out,” Abdullah said at a meeting of the NationalConference provincial committee here.

The Lok Sabha member from Srinagar said the BJP leadership was dogmatic intheir approach towards Kashmir.

“When it comes to Kashmir, the present leadership of the BJP is so dogmaticin their approach that they are not ready to listen to reason,” he said.

Blaming the state government as well as the Centre for the rapidlydeteriorating situation, Abdullah said deaths, communal polarisation, chaosand anarchy have engulfed all the three regions of the state.

“Under the present PDP-BJP government, the people of the state are beingpitted against one another along regional and religious lines. This isbeing done with a design to seek specific political dividends by the rulingregime,” he alleged.

Expressing concern over the deteriorating law and order scenario in thestate, the former chief minister said that frequent killings had led to asituation where the youths were being pushed into an area of confrontationand that they would subsequently become the victims of this conflict.

“Being the head of the state and of the unified headquarters, Chief MinsterMehbooba Mufti has failed completely to put a stop to civilian casualties.It is time for both PDP and BJP to do some introspection and listen tovoices from the ground and do some course correction which I am afraid tosay is too late,” he added.