The People’s Democratic Party has withdrawn its support from the Jammu and Kashmir [Images] government. All ministers from the party submitted their resignations to Governor N N Vohra on Saturday evening, party president Mehbooba Mufti told mediapersons.

“A meeting of our senior ministers and legislators was held today, where it was decided that the PDP could not continue in the government in the prevailing circumstances. All our ministers have tendered their resignations to the chief minister and a letter of withdrawal of support to the coalition government has been sent to the state governor,” said Mehbooba Mufti.

“We had given a deadline to the chief minister to rescind the controversial land allotment order to the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board. From his attitude, it appears that the Chief Minister Ghulam [Images] Nabi Azad was in no mood to address the aspiration of the people in this regard,” Mehbooba said.

The decision to withdraw the support was taken at a meeting of the PDP executive committee, held under the chairmanship of Mufti.

The withdrawal of support comes in the wake of widespread and massive demonstrations and protests across Kashmir, during the last six days, against the forest land allotment to the SASB. The PDP decided to withdraw support two days before the deadline it had set for the state government — June 30.