Opposition demands that PM Modi issue a statement on J-K CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's remarks crediting Pakistan.

While the BJP disassociated itself from Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's remarks on Sunday that the credit for smooth conduct of J-K assembly polls must be given to "people from across the border", the opposition today demanded that the PM condemn the remark. 

Home minister Rajnath Singh said in Parliament that the credit for smooth polls in J&K goes to EC, army, paramilitary forces and people of the state and that he was speaking on behalf of the PM. 

Soon after taking oath on Sunday, Sayeed said credit must be given to people from across the border, an oblique reference to Pakistan, Hurriyat and militant outfits, for "allowing conducive atmosphere" for assembly polls.

"I want to say this on record and I have told this to the prime minister that the we must credit the Hurriyat, militant outfits for the conduct of assembly elections in the state," Sayeed said during a press conference in Srinagar after being sworn in as head of the PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir at a ceremony which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.