Will the Centre and the National Conference (NC) now discuss the 1975 autonomy formula instead of the 1953 one? Or will the autonomy resolution be referred to the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC)? It took the death of Farooq Abdullahs mother Begum Akbar Jahan to change the atmospherics on Kashmir. With the government rejecting Farooqs pre-1953 autonomy resolution and Farooq calling a meeting of the NCs working committee to deliberate on whether to stay on in the NDA government, the issue had degenerated into a stalemate. The question was, who would blink first? The death of Begum Akbar Jahan, widow of Sheikh Abdullah, solved that problem.