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Farooq had no plan to marry bollywood star, Rekha, claims Kak in his book | | | Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 26: While mystery over Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah's plan to marry for the second time is yet to be unravelled his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah, had set every speculation about his (Farooq's) second marriage to rest when he had in mid 80's dismissed reports about his plan to marry bollywood star, Rekha. Farooq had told M.L. Kak about 26 years ago that he had no plan to marry Rekha and "let me make it clear that I am not going to marry for the second time." This is recorded in a book written by a prominent journalist, M.L. Kak. Sheikh Abdullah, the tallest political figure in Jammu and Kashmir, had no regrets in his life. Even the 1953 episode, when the Government he headed had been dismissed and he was jailed, had no regrets for him. He had stated that "I had no regrets for the event. It taught me many things. It was a lesson and a test for me whether I would be able to stand by the ideals I cherished." This observation of Sheikh Abdullah has been penned in the book, titled, "Jailed without crime" by prominent journalist, M.L. Kak, which was formally launched by the Jawaharlal Nehru University vice-chancellor, S.K. Sopory, at an impressive function in New Delhi on Sunday. In his detailed interview with Kak, Sheikh Abdullah had agreed that the 1953 event had a bearing on the members of his family. "Nobody was prepared to give a house on rent to my children. My children were terrorised and threatened. Even doctors were afraid to treat them. But thank God they did not fall in a bad company." The book gives a graphic account of the plan conceived and implemented by the then Home Secretary, Ghulam Shah, and the former police Chief, Pir Ghulam Hassan Shah, for forcing then security adviser to the Government, P.A. Rosha to quit. The book also exposes some political leaders who misused their powers for settling personal scores during the imposition of internal emergency in the country in 1975. The author says that bureaucrats, people and political activists were gripped by emergency scare because it was for the first time that the internal emergency had been imposed in the country. He says if the emergency was imposed again it may not grip people and bureaucrats by as much fear as it had generated in 1975. The book is available at Raina News Agency, Residency Road, Jammu Radha Krishan Anand and sons, Pacca Danga, Jammu, Oberio Book Store Bahu Plaza and Gulshan Book stall, Residency Road Srinagar. |
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