Member Parliament and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah with state Congress chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir and other opposition leaders and MLAs during a press conference after...
National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah greets External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during the ongoing monsoon session at Parliament, in New Delhi.
President of National Conference Farooq Abdullah talks to media during the Parliament's monsoon session in New Delhi.h
President of National Conference Farooq Abdullah at Parliament House during the ongoing monsoon session in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, President of National Conference Farooq Abdullah and CPI's D Raja after an all-party meeting ahead of monsoon session of P...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets JKNC President Farooq Abdullah after he was sworn-in as a Member of the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on the opening day of the monsoon session.
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, centre, holds hand of Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, left, and national Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, right, during presiden...
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National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah being felicitated by party members on his win from Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, in Jammu.
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah interacts with press after winning the bypoll from Srinagar parliamentary seat, in Srinagar.
Former Union Minister and Congress-National Conference joint candidate Farooq Abdullah shows victory sign as his son and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah looks on outside a poll...
Ex-CM Farooq Abdullah at a joint party meet in Srinagar in March
Farooq Abdullah is contesting for the Srinagar seat that he lost in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, accompanied by J & K Congress president Ghulam Ahmad Mir (Right) and Congress leader Tariq Hameed Kara at a joint party convention af...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, accompanied by his son and former chief minister Omar Abdullah and Congress leader Tariq Hameed Kara filing nomination papers for Sri...
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President Farooq Abdullah during a seminar on “Guru Nanak Vichar Dhara Manvata Da Parteek” to commemorate 548th Parkash Utsav of founder o...
Former Union Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah paying obeisance at Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Former Union Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah with former CM and party working president Omar Abdullah at the National Conference working committee meetin...
National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah speaks during the 1st DGC Literature & Idias Festival, in New Delhi.
Former Union minister Farooq Abdullah dances with actor Ranveer Singh at the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards function in New Delhi on Tuesday night.
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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...
