"In Mumbai, I said, Farooq Abdullah is our best representative and he will take the call. Omar Abdullah should have discussed the same with me for greater interest, we were not going to fight over parliamentary elections," Mufti told reporters in Srinagar.
Reacting to their claims, the LG said, "This is totally baseless. No one has been put under house arrest or arrested due to political reasons in Jammu and Kashmir.
The issue between Omar and Payal has been ongoing for several years now as the former claimed that their marriage had broken irretrievably and that the latter committed cruelty upon him.
In 2016, a trial court dismissed Omar Abdullah's divorce petition, ruling that he had been unable to prove an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage" and his claims of "cruelty or desertion."