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.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad with National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah speak to media after a meeting at Gupkar residence in Srinagar.
Farooq Abdulah's first engagement was to offer prayers at his father Sheikh Abdullah's grave at Hazratbal on banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.
National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (L) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (R) speaks to media after his Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked by J-K a...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, PDP President and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, PDP vice-President Muzaffar Hussain Beigh and other leaders during an all par...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy, AP CM Na Chandrababu Naidu, Samajwady Party President Akhilesh Yadav, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah waves towards media persons during a meeting with party leaders at his residence, in Gupkar in Srinagar. Jammu and Kashmir Governor Sa...
Former Chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and National Conference party president Farooq Abdullah left, waves as he meets his party delegation inside his residence in Srinagar.
Former Chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and National Conference party president Farooq Abdullah and his wife Molly Abdullah arrive to meet their party delegation inside their re...
Police and CRPF personnel stand guard near the residence of National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, in Srinagar.
Police and CRPF personnel stand guard near the residence of National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, in Srinagar. Abdullah, who was under detention since Aug. 5, has now been...
In this file photo, former Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, centre, holds hand of Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, left, and national Conference leader Farooq Abdul...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, PDP President and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and other leaders during an all party meeting regarding the current situation ...
MP and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah along with PDP President and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and leaders of other parties addressing a joint press confere...
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and PDP President and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti during an all party meeting regarding the current situation in Kashmir, in ...
J&K National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister Omar Abdullah and party MP Justice (Retd.) Hasnain Masoodi call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
National Congress President Farooq Abdullah with party Vice-President Omar Abdullah after their meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the Parliament in New Delhi.
Member of Parliament and President of National Conference Farooq Abdullah addresses a gathering, organised to welcome founding member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former m...
BJP MP Hema Malini and National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah arrive for the Budget Session at Parliament House, in New Delhi.
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...
