New Delhi: Former minister in Jammu and Kashmir governmentand influential Shia leader Imran Ansari hit out at People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti for his working style. He also accused her of nepotism.

"Mehbooba Mufti not only failed the PDP as a party but also dashed the dreams of her father late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that he had envisaged," Imran said.

He accused Mehbooba of nepotism in the party as well as in the PDP-BJP coalition government she headed. "It had become a family show which was run by brothers, uncles and other relatives. The Peoples Democratic Party has become Family Democratic Party," he said in an apparent reference to induction of Tasaduq Mufti, a political newbie, as cabinet minister earlier this year and giving key position to Sartaj Madni, Mehbooba's uncle, in the party.

Farooq Andrabi, another relative of the PDP president, was also a minister for some time. Imran claimed that he had told Mehbooba several times that these relatives will "make you incompetent" but she paid no heed till the government fell. "I told her that it has become claustrophobic to be in the party. As she refused to address the concerns, we (Imran Ansari and his uncle Abid Ansari) said our goodbyes to her," he said.

While Imran Ansari is a PDP MLA from Pattan constituency, his uncle is party MLA from Zadibal segment. Imran said the family rule should end in the party or else it would be difficult for him to continue in it.  "There is no point for us to continue in this party," he said, adding that he was not averse to joining any other party which was keen to work for betterment of Jammu and Kashmir and end the "family rule".