Jammu, Jan. 6 -- Asserting that further division of Jammu and Kashmir on religious lines can have far reaching consequences, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday castigated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders for claiming that Jammu only may get statehood.

The Chief Minister while responding to a query of a reporter about the claims of BJP leaders said, "They have already spoiled Ladakh by making it a UT. If they now want to do the same to Jammu, then let them do it." He said the Centre had "failed to effectively administer Ladakh after separating it from Jammu and Kashmir."

"They couldn't control Ladakh. Why are they now trying to spoil Jammu?" Abdullah asked, adding that such statements reflected political failure. "Somewhere their p...