He went on to compare the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir with the time when he was the Chief Minister, saying there used to be twenty teachers in high schools but today there is only one teacher, where there used to be 15 doctors there are only two doctors

Several former members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday filed nomination papers to contest the Assembly polls in the Union Territory as independent candidates. While Jamaat cannot take part in the polls due to the ban imposed on it by home ministry, it had shown interest in participating in Lok Sabha polls