Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 2: Omar, who had his childhood in Esex, a county in England, in an interview to the Telegraph- England based news paper said: "When I go to England and I don't have anything, that's when it becomes strange: getting on to a bus, travelling by Tube, buying myself a train ticket and hopping on to a train, these are things that I never get to do.",
Omar Abdullah who also heads the state where many parts are quite remote, where even regular bus service is a luxury and where many areas remain cut off for about six-months-read like Zanskar- doesn't have the need to board a bus. He is probably the only Chief Minister in the country who makes it a point to travel in one of the best cars of the world, and also does get himself photographed in front of the new car collection and post them on his facebook page.
The Chief Minister in the same interview had called about having solution to the Kashmir on the line of Northern Ireland. Chief Minister who doesn't know how to travel in tube-like metro in India- had once told the State Assembly that his family is not happy when he gets a pay cheque and not only that when youth protested against government's decision to pay initial salary of just Rs 4000 to new recruits, he had also said that his initial pay when he joined a hotel in Mumbai was even less than that.
Omar by equating his pay with the new recruits was trying to bring himself in the same page but here by admitting that he doesn't know how to travel on his own he has also shown that he doesn't need to bother about his daily needs. The Chief Minister, one of the most protected politicians in the country, though dresses impeccably, has appeared in fashion magazines and travels in the State chopper, once even to visit a close by hospital in Srinagar. |
