Congress leader P Chidambaram has asked Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to quit the BJP-PDP coalition government stating that the alliance was the gravest provocation to the people of the valley.

The former Home and Finance Minister, in a series of tweets, claimed that the "muscular and militaristic" approach of the central government has driven the state towards the present "catastrophic" situation.

Mehbooba Mufti should break her party's unholy and opportunistic coalition with the BJP and go back to the philosophy of her father, said one of the tweets.

The CM had yesterday urged the national leadership to show the element of compassion and display the statesmanship to get Jammu and Kashmir out of the "vicious cycle of killings".

Chidambaram also said that Mehbooba does not see that her coalition government is the core of the problem.