Srinagar, May 27 -- All doesn't seem well between Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah and National Conference (NC) MP from Srinagar Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi.

While the NC denied that Mehdi had walked out of the party's working body meeting last week, the sarcastic poetry posted by him on X smacks of defiance by the outspoken MP. "Either rise and become such a 'sukhanvar' (orator/poet/speaker) who serves a purpose for the nation; Or sit in the comfort of the 'zanpaan' (palanquin)," he posted in translation of a Kashmiri couplet.

Mehdi posted the couplet hours after NC spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar criticised an online portal for reporting that the MP had walked out of the working committee meeting after an argument with Abdullah ...