National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ambika Soni address a press conference, in Jammu.
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah during a joining function for new party members, in Jammu.
Opposition leaders (R-L) Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh Ch...
Opposition leaders (R-L) National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and TMC MP Derek O'B...
In this file photo, Vajpayee, centre, George Fernandes, L.K. Advani and other NDA alliance leaders in ’03.
Trinamool Congress party leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee speaks as Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Nai...
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, right, greets Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, during a rally attended by leader...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah addresses during a joining function for new party members, in Jammu.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar at a meeting in New Delhi.
National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah speaks with BJP MP Subramanian Swamy at Parliament during its Winter Session, in New Delhi.
(2nd L-R) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Loktan...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah meets with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in Kolkata.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and former legislators Basharat Bukhari and Peer Muhammad Hussain join National Conference in presence of the party President Farooq Abdullah...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and former legislators Basharat Bukhari and Peer Muhammad Hussain join National Conference in presence of the party President Farooq Abdullah...
DMK chief MK Stalin, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, newly sworn-in Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamla Nath, NC chief Farooq Abdullah, Karnataka Chief Minister ...
Newly-sworn in Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath waves at the crowd during his swearing-in-ceremony, in Bhopal. Also seen are NC chief Farooq Abdullah (L), NCP chief Sharad ...
National Conference President Farooq Abdulla, former Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav and NCP President Sharad Pawar attend the swearing-in ceremony, at Albert Hall in Jaipu...
Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia shakes hands with National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah at Parliament during its Winter Session in New Delhi.
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav during the first day of the Winter Seesion of Parliament, in New Delhi.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar and Nationalist Congress leader Praful Patel at a meeting o...
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...
