Srinagar/New Delhi, April 16 -- A political storm has been triggered in Jammu and Kashmir following a claim by former head of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) A.S. Dulat that National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah had privately endorsed the abrogation of Article 370 and even expressed readiness to "help" in the process if he had been taken into "confidence".
Dulat, in his new book 'The Chief Minister and the Spy', quotes Abdullah as saying during a private conversation: "We would have helped (pass the proposal). Why were we not taken into confidence?"
Abdullah, however, dismissed Dulat's claim as a "cheap stunt" aimed at boosting book sales.
Claiming that the contents of the book were "figments of imagination" of the author Dulat, he...