Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday dismissed as “baseless” the assertions of former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah that the government had directed the union territory chief secretary to notify rules of business to make the elected government powerless. 

In a post on microblogging site X, NC vice-president Omar Abdullah said on Friday that the BJP had virtually accepted its defeat in the J&K elections and that is why the J&K chief secretary had been directed to notify change in rules of business so that the Lt governor became more powerful and the elected chief minister and his council of ministers were rendered more powerless.