Let me put this out here for all to remember NOT ONE NEW MILITANT WILL BE CREATED WITH THE BREAK UP OF THE PDP. Peo… https://t.co/ZbquovxTLX — Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) 1531453469000

She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to… https://t.co/3UgHkq2HgZ — Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) 1531453328000

Srinagar: Former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said she feared that the BJP-led central government may play a role in splitting her party — the PDP — and warned it of “dangerous consequences” and a spike in militancy if that happened.The PDP chief alleged that no party in the state can split without the intervention of New Delhi and cautioned that any such experiment with her party would be a reminiscent of the “rigged” elections of 1987, which gave rise to United Jihad Council chief Syed Salahuddin and Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik.Mufti’s assertions forced five PDP rebels, led by legislator and former minister Imran Ansari, to address a press conference together for the first time, where they said the party chief was putting their lives at a risk by painting rebellion as an exercise engineered by New Delhi. Ansari referred to Mufti as a “white-collar killer”.Mufti was speaking at the martyrs’ graveyard in Srinagar, where politicians from across the spectrum pay respect to Kashmiris killed on July 13, 1931, during the Dogra rule. The internal crisis in the PDP surfaced days after the BJP pulled out of the coalition government with the PDP on June 19.“No split can happen without New Delhi’s intervention. My party is stable and strong but there could be problems within the families and those can be resolved. If New Delhi tries to intervene and split (the PDP) like it did in 1987, it will have dangerous consequences. [In 1987] they executed a dacoity on votes and rights of people, when Muslim United Front was crushed,” Mufti told reporters.The rebel group of three MLAs — Ansari, Javed Baig and Abdul Majeed Padder — and two MLCs — Yasir Reshi and Saifuddin — while addressing the press conference claimed that they were the “real PDP” and have rebelled against the prevalent family rule in the party.Ansari also took to Twitter to attack Mufti. “Are you Mehbooba Mufti telling me that Delhi convinced me to rebel against you, wake up from your slumber…Are you telling me people will take to guns because you and your cronies have been driven out of power. It is an end to cronyism. People are celebrating wake up.”As Mufti tries to keep her flock together, Omar Abdullah of the National Conference challenged her on Twitter, saying, “Let me put this out here for all to remember. Not one new militant will be created with the breakup of the PDP. People will not mourn the demise of a party created in Delhi only to divide the votes of Kashmiris.”In a previous tweet, Abdullah who branded Mufti as "really desperate" for her alleged threat over renewed militancy."She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to have forgotten that militancy in Kashmir has already been reborn under her most able administration," he wrote.The National Conference leader also posted to Twitter that "not one new militant" would be created with the breakup of the PDP.Mufti's comment came a day after the PDP leadership cracked the whip on those who had revolted, removing legislator Yasir Reshi as the party's Bandipora district president.The dissenters have accused Mufti of nepotism, and called for an alternative to the "two family system" - a reference to the Abdullahs and the Muftis - of power in Jammu and Kashmir