Srinagar, Jan. 19 -- Calling the exit of Peoples Conference from PAGD a formal beginning of the collapse of an 'unprincipled and an opportunistic alliance', Apni Party President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday said the development has taken place much earlier than anticipated by the people.

The former Minister said that since its inception, PAGD leadership indulged in fraud, deceit and emotional blackmailing of the people just to make its constituent parties politically relevant and reap the electoral dividends in the recently concluded DDC elections.

"This development has happened sooner than even what we had thought. This whole political exercise carried out by the PAGD signatories was a pretense and facade to drain the sentime...