“The opposition has walked out of the House, but I cannot do that as I am chief minister. But please tell me how many times I will seek forgiveness and promise the families of the dead that I will get justice done for them,” he said, after losing his composure, while replying to the motion of thanks on the governor’s address.

Noting the circumstances in which the firing took place in Baramulla, he said, “I don’t know why the bullets were fired on a small procession.”