Srinagar: Congress and the PDP were locked in a brinkmanship on October 22 on the issue of Chief Ministership in Jammu and Kashmir with the national party even raising questions over continuing the parleys.

With PDP favouring more talks and shortly before the crucial meeting of Congress leaders to evolve a strategy on government formation, president of the J&K unit of Congress Ghulam Nabi Azad said their claim over Chief Minitership was "reasonable".

"We already had a number of meetings. We have to decide whether we would continue to have more such meetings or just say goodbye," Azad said here in the backdrop of fresh pleas by PDP for more negotiations. Mufti Muhammed Sayeed's party also did not want Congress to close the option of further dialogue.

With no signs of a solution to the prolonged impasse after the House threw up a hung verdict on October 10, Azad said the Congress proposed rotating Chief Ministership with the party and the PDP sharing the six year term, Azad said.

The proposal was rejected by the PDP, which wanted Chief Ministership for a full term, he added.

PDP showed no signs of relenting on its claim for Chief Ministership and indicated that it was even prepared to sit in the Opposition.

At the same time with Congress preparing to take a final position on the deadlock, PDP"s vice-president Muzaffar Baig counselled Congress not to close its options for talks.

"We need them (Congress). They need us," Baig said in Srinagar.

PTI