Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh meets the leader of National Conference Party Omar Abdullah, in Srinagar.
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference leaders and Former Chief ministers of J&K, Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah leaves the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after vi...
National Conference Vice-President Omar Abdullah, offers prayers along with his party leaders at the grave of the 1931 martyrs, at Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab in the Downtown area of S...
Former J&K chief minister and National Conference (NC) chief Omar Abdullah
National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah and Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah leave after the budget session in Jammu.
National Conference working president Omar Abdullah and party leader Devender Singh Rana (R) welcome ex-Congress minister Prem Sagar Aziz as he joins the party at Sher-e-Kashmir Bh...
Former Chief Minister and National Conference working President Omar Abdullah interacting with party supporters after offering special prayers at the graveyard of his grandfather a...
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during voting for MLC elections at Civil Secretariat, in Jammu.
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...
Congress leader Ambika Soni, along with Jammu and Kashmir party chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir (2nd from R), Tariq Hamid Karra (L) and former chief minister Omar Abdullah, during filing of...
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...
Omar Abdullah
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and President of National Conference Omar Abdullah along with party Legislators during a protest against the PDP-BJP goverment during budget...
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee addresses media outside Rashtrapati Bhavan after meeting President over demonetisation of currency, in New Delhi.
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee along with AAP and National Conference leaders marched to the Rashtrapati Bhavan against the government’s decision to demonetise Rs 500...
An opposition delegation from Jammu and Kashmir during a meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi.
An opposition delegation from Jammu and Kashmir during a meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi.
National Conference chief Omar Abdullah, CPI(M) MLA M.Y. Tarigami (L) and other opposition delegation from Jammu and Kashmir, addresses media after a meeting with Prime Minister Na...
National Conference chief Omar Abdullah along with an opposition delegation from Jammu and Kashmir, addresses media after a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
Omar Abdullah
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...
