Spokesperson of Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) Sajad Gani Lone (3R) addresses media persons after a meeting, in Srinagar. Also seen are PAGD President Farooq Abdull...
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president Farooq Abdullah speaks during a meeting with his party workers a day after the District Development Council elections results in Sri...
J&K National Conference President Farooq Abdullah along with his son Omar Abdullah offers special prayers at the mausoleum of his father and party founder Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah,...
Members of People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and others during a press conference after their meeting, at Bathindi in Jammu.
National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah and party leader Omar Abdullah addresses party workers at the party headquarters, in Jammu.
MP and President of National Conference (NC) Farooq Abdullah and PDP chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti look on as People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration spokesperson...
MP and President of National Conference (NC) Farooq Abdullah, PDP chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, former CM Omar Abdullah and other members after a meeting of Peopl...
J&K National Conference President Farooq Abdullah with Kashmiri Pandits at Durga Nag Temple on the occasion of Ram Navami and Maha Ashtami, in Srinagar.
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah leaves the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office in Srinagar. The ED again questioned Abdullah in connection with a money-laundering pro...
Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and President of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti interacts with J&K National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and leade...
National Conference President & MP Farooq Abdullah and other lawmakers protest demanding restoration of special status of J&K and other issues in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue, du...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, at Parliament House in New Delhi.
National Conference leaders Farooq Abdullah and Hasnain Masoodi during a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Parliament House, in New Delhi.
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah at Parliament House during ongoing Monsoon Session, in New Delhi.
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference President Farooq Abdullah in the Lok Sabha during the opening day of Monsoon Session of Parliament, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in Ne...
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President Farooq Abdullah along with his son and former J & K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and senior party leaders offers special prayers at ...
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and party Vice President Omer Abdulla attend the party's first-ever meeting after abrogation of article 370 and 35A,...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah addresses a press conference after holding a meeting with party leaders, including those leaders who were detained post-August 05, 201...
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah poses for a photograph with his father and party chief Farooq Abdullah and his mother Molly Abdullah after he was freed from detention as t...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah along with other leaders poses for a group photograph after a meeting, in Srinagar.
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Shazia Ilmi provides a much needed intervention in the uncritical reactions of fanfare in the Indian Express:
Carpe diem — that Latin phrase means ‘seize the day’. Omar, like a sharp politician did just that. He seized his last national opportunity to reach out to his political constituency at the time when elections loom large and when the hangover of clashes over Amarnath ceases to abate. The short speech managed to press the right hot buttons -- Muslim identity, Gujarat riots and Amarnath shrine land transfer debacle. Bingo — the speech was sharp and smart just like the much-focussed politics of Omar Abdullah and National Conference (NC). Nothing noble or lofty about it, as some would have us believe.
Here are some déjà vu moments that one must recall:
August 27, 2006; The Times of India: “My biggest regret is that I did not resign when V P Singh was the PM and he sent that team’ In a stinging attack on Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L. K. Advani over the 1999 Kandahar hijack episode, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah accused the then Prime Minister and Home Minister of compelling him to release Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Maulana Masood Azhar for which the “world will pay the price”. Abdullah, whose son Omar Abdullah was a minister during the NDA coalition’s rule: “I told Advani I am going to the Governor. And I went to Raj Bhavan with my resignation,” the then Chief Minister said. He, however, did not resign.
Wanting to resign and not quite being able to do is an art the National Conference has mastered. On the Gujarat riots, Omar insisted he should have resigned and he almost did, but not quite. Be it the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed , the Kandahar crisis, autonomy resolution for the state or the Gujarat riots, both Omar and his father have always managed to stop short of resigning! The pricking of their conscience in each case is almost always a tad late.
Read the full piece: Demagoguery apart
paapaa kahte hain
baRaa naam karegaa
achhe kaam karegaaa
achhe kaam karegaa
He was responding to how he felt after his son took over the reins of the state...
