India, July 14 -- Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today condemned the alleged manhandling of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar.

Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC), in a statement here termed the act by security officials who physically prevented and allegedly manhandled the sitting Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah as highly condemnable and unjustified when he attempted to offer prayers at the Mazar-e-Shuhada graveyard in Srinagar today.

The senior leader of the National Conference said that it is "shocking and disgraceful that the elected Chief Minister of the Union Territory was compelled to scale the boundary wall of the graveyard to pay homage to t...