Jammu and Kashmir Monday completed five years under the federal rule, without an elected government, prompting a scathing attack from the mainstream National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party over the delay in restoration of democracy in the erstwhile state.

The erstwhile state’s last elected government operated in a coalition between Bharatiya Janata Party and People’s Democratic Party led by former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti from 2015 to 2018. Mufti resigned from the post of the chief minister on June 19, 2018 after BJP withdrew support to the coalition government.