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  Day after release, Farooq Abdullah meets son Omar in sub-jail in Srinagar | Photos

  India | March 14, 2020 16:11 IST

  A day after being getting released from 7-month house detention under Public Safety Act (PSA), National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Saturday met his son Omar Abdullah in sub-jail in Srinagar, officials informed on Saturday.

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  Few detained J&K leaders inciting people to violence: Ram Madhav

  India | October 20, 2019 19:31 IST

  This was the first time any BJP leader addressed a gathering in Kashmir after August 5 when Article 370 was abrogated.

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  Jammu and Kashmir: Several NC, PDP leaders to join BJP

  Politics | October 14, 2019 22:49 IST

  About a dozen and half leaders belonging to People's Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference (NC) are going to join the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.

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  Political participation by NC ruled out for now: Hasnain Masoodi

  India | October 08, 2019 16:32 IST

  After meeting with party president Farooq Abdullah and Vice President Omar Abdullah, National Conference MP Hasnain Masoodi, in an exclusive interview with IANS, said that political participation by the NC is ruled out at a time when the entire leadership of the party is detained.

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  NC delegation meets Farooq Abdullah at his residence

  India | October 06, 2019 13:14 IST

  Provincial President Devender Singh Rana left Jammu by an IndiGo flight early Sunday for the meeting. Former NC legislators are also part of the delegation. Rana had requested Governor Satya Pal Malik for the permission. The delegation will have 15 m

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  15-member delegation of NC leaders will go to Srinagar, says NC leader

  India | October 05, 2019 21:04 IST

  The National Conference delegation from Jammu province has been granted permission by the Jammu and Kashmir government to meet party president Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah on Sunday.

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  Article 35A debate heats up: Won't allow changes in J&K demography, warns Farooq Abdullah

  Politics | July 28, 2019 21:49 IST

  Terrorism-hit Jammu & Kashmir is showing signs of a fresh political battle over Article 35-A. Former J&K Chief Minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has said that his party will resist attempts to dilute "unique identity" of the state. His reaction has come hours after People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti expressed similar sentiments

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  Senior National Conference leader Shehnaz Ganai quits party

  India | July 07, 2019 19:01 IST

  Shehnaz Ganai was elected to the J&K State Legislative Council from the Jammu division on the mandate of the National Conference through panchayat quota in December 2013 and completed her five-year term last year.  

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  Omar Abdullah seeks action in journalists bribery case

  India | May 08, 2019 17:32 IST

  The former chief minister was reacting to emergence of a CCTV footage from a hotel in Leh where several BJP leaders, including the party's state president Ravindra Raina, could be seen distributing envelopes among journalists.

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  Militants hurl grenade at National Conference leader's house in Tral

  India | April 16, 2019 17:00 IST

  A police official said the ultras lobbed grenade towards the house of Mohammad Ashraf Bhat in Tral town but it landed some distance away.

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  Farooq Abdullah compares PM Modi to Hitler

  April 13, 2019 17:15 IST

  Addressing a rally in the old city area of Khanyar, Abdullah said: "Like Modi says -- Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Vikas--, Hitler too, used to say the same things back then in Germany.

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  No one will hoist the national flag in Kashmir if Article 370 is abrogated: Farooq Abdullah

  April 08, 2019 16:54 IST

  "Let them do it, we will see. I will see who is ready to hoist their flag here. So don't do such things that break our hearts. Try joining the hearts, not breaking them," he said.

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  Lok Sabha 2019 polls decisive battle against Modi govt: Farooq Abdullah

  April 07, 2019 20:38 IST

  "The claims of Modi on providing jobs turned out to be a mere slogan. The prices of commodities are soaring. Perhaps the biggest ever failure of this government is its sheer failure to control the prices of petroleum products, including cooking gas," the NC leader said.

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  Modi govt lying on Balakot air strike, shooting down of Pak F-16: Farooq Abdullah

  April 06, 2019 15:06 IST

  Abdullah, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from the Srinagar constituency, said the BJP-led central government carried out the aerial strike as the Prime Minister had "failed" in delivering on his promises made during the last general elections in the country.

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  Is Farooq Abdullah the front-runner in Srinagar Lok Sabha seat?

  April 05, 2019 12:52 IST

  In his over 40-year-long political career, Abdullah, now 82, has lost only one election. That was in 2014 when Tariq Hameed Karra of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated him in Srinagar.

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  Farooq leads campaigning of alliance candidates in Jammu

  March 22, 2019 13:42 IST

  There is no other goal (in entering into an alliance with the Congress)," Abdullah told reporters here while kickstarting campaigning of the joint candidates.

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  Mirwaiz Umer Farooq placed under house arrest

  India | March 22, 2019 11:18 IST

  The development comes ahead of post-Friday prayers protests called by separatists against the custodial death of Rizwan Asad Pandit, a 28-year-old private school teacher.

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  22 workers of various political parties join NC in Jammu

  India | January 14, 2019 18:05 IST

  Twenty-two workers of various political parties joined the National Conference (NC) on Monday in presence of its provincial president Devender Singh Rana and pledged to work for serving the people as per policies and programmes of the party.

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  'Willing to contest LS polls, but won't join any political party as of now', says Shah Faesal who resigned from IAS

  India | January 11, 2019 19:07 IST

  Faesal, who is speculated to be joining the National Conference, also said that he would not be joining any political party "as of now."

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  'Imitate spirit of Kartarpur corridor in J-K by opening routes across LoC, IB': Farooq Abdullah to India, Pak

  India | December 02, 2018 19:50 IST

  Adding further, he said the initiative would not only help boost economic activities on both sides of the border, but also help rekindle the flame of friendship between India and Pakistan.