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| ‘WE DIFFER ON DINNER MENU BUT NOT ON DIPLOMACY’: OMAR ABDULLAH | | |
Jammu, October 23
National Conference President, Mr Omar Abdullah, has denied press reports suggesting that there were differences between him and his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah.
In an interview on Take 1 news channel Omar Abdullah said “yes we have differences.Differences crop up when we have to decide whether we will have chappatis or rice for dinner.We differ when it is time to decide which dish is to be prepared for lunch.”
He said “we have no difference of opinion as far as issues concerning politics and party ideology is concerned. I accept, at times, suggestions from my party workers and leaders and on occasions I succeed in pushing my ideas on my partymen,”he said.
The NC President seems to have become wiser from the defeat in 2002 Assembly election.He said “I have learnt enough from the 2002 Assembly debacle.I do not want to repeat mistakes which we had committed prior to the poll.”
Omar Abdullah said “had we won the 2002 Assembly poll we may not have become wise enough to avoid making mistakes.We have lost the battle at the hustings so we do not want to repeat our mistakes.”
The NC Chief had a dig at the state unit of the Congress saying that “the congress ministers opposed,in the cabinet meeting,Mr Tariq Hamid Qarra’s unilateral announcement on the release of DA instalment.And later the Chief Minister,who belongs to the Congress,announced,on his own, acceptance of Qarra’s statement on the release of DA instalment.” He said in both the cases the PDP has been a gainer and the Congress a loser.
He said the PDP patron,Mufti Mohd.Sayeed should have taken people of all the three regions in the state into confidence on his self-rule concept before going to the UN General Assembly as head of an unofficial Indian delegation.He said the “self-rule shop of the PDP is empty.” He said if the PDP has some idea it should table it on the floor of the Assembly and get it adopted as “we did with our concept of greater autonomy.”
Omar Abdullah refused to comment on Parvez Musharraf’s book “In the Line of Fire” saying people keep on writing books and the General has earned quite a good amount of money from the sale of the book.
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