Apni Party president Syed Muhammad Altaf Bukhari on Sunday accused the ruling National Conference (NC) of maintaining a "behind-the-scenes" understanding with the BJP and said the people of Jammu and Kashmir would not accept any covert political arrangement. In an interview with KNS, Altaf Bukhari said his party had been subjected to a propaganda campaign during the 2024 Assembly elections, with rivals portraying the Apni Party as the BJP's "B-team". "For the last six years, a narrative was built that we were the face of the Government of India or the BJP's B-team.