Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday offered to resign from the post after a senior PDP leader alleged that he was involved in last year's sex scandal.
"I know it is a false allegation. But I want to resign till I am cleared of this false allegation. I cannot work till I am proved innocent. It is a blot on my character,” Abdullah said.
"Any amount of investigation by the home department will not help. Till I am able to prove my innocence, I am going to give my resignation to the Governor," Abdullah told the State Assembly, a statement that shocked his party MLAs and Ministers.
The MLAs and Ministers physically restrained the Chief Minister from leaving the Assembly but Abdullah walked out.
He was virtually forced to take his seat by the ruffled members but he got up to shout at them saying "allow me to take this first step".
The whole drama began when PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Beig levelled the allegation that Abduallah was involved in the infamous Srinagar sex scandal.
He claimed he had a list of people involved in the scandal in which Abdullah's name figured.
Congress in-charge of state Prithviraj Chavan has spoken to Omar Abdullah asking him not to resign as it was a trap to get him out of office, party sources said.
Chavan has also spoken to Omar's father Farooq Abdullah so that he stops him from resigning, they said.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her political secretary Ahmed Patel are also likely to talk to Omar to urge him not to go ahead with his threat to quit, the sources said.
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