Farooq Abdullah

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The decision has surprised many in view of Abdullah's recent lament that “We are gradually moving towards a situation where there will be one country ruled by a single party”.

The 86-year-old politician was called by the central agency at its Srinagar office in connection with an ED investigation into alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).

The 86-year-old politician is understood to have been called in connection with the federal agency's investigation into alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is leading the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.

Abdullah, who on Friday had announced he will be relinquishing the presidency of NC next month, said he is not escaping the responsibility and will continue to work to strengthen the party.

85-year-old Abdullah is expected to continue as patron of the party and guide it, especially during the first assembly elections after the state was downgraded to a union territory.

NC general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar issued the notification for election which will be held on December 5, the birth anniversary of party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.

"I will not be contesting for the post of president any longer. The elections for the post will be held on December 5. It is time for the new generation to take over the responsibilities," Farooq Abdullah told PTI.

The 84-year-old Abdullah is the second political person after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to have withdrawn their names as probable opposition nominee for the July elections.

Farooq Abdullah asked the government to be very alert during forthcoming Amarnath yatra and said if there is one single untoward incident during the yatra, there will be countrywide repercussions.

Abdullah, the Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, arrived at the ED office at Rajbagh at 11 am. Before going in, the former chief minister spoke to reporters and linked his questioning with the forthcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

The questioning is reported to be in connection with a case of alleged financial irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) that is being probed by the federal agency.

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The three NC Lok Sabha members— Farooq Abdullah, Hasnain Masoodi and Akbar Lone – who are associate members of the panel, entrusted with redrawing of boundaries of Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies, had not attended earlier meeting of the panel held in February this year.

Addressing a convention of the NC's youth wing on the occasion of the 116th birth anniversary of party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah at his mausoleum at Naseembagh, Abdullah, however, said his party does not support violence.

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, however, questioned the claim of the BJP that militancy has been wiped out from the Union Territory.

''We will win and I am telling you this with authority that if they conduct polls in a free and fair manner, then the National Conference will be the biggest party here,'' he told reporters on the sidelines of an event titled 'Parliamentary outreach programme for the empowerment Panchayati Raj institutions in Jammu and Kashmir'.

On its first day of the visit, the Delimitation Commission will hold deliberations with the representatives of political leaders at Grand Lalit hotel in Srinagar.

Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said she informed the PM that people of Jammu and Kashmir and her PDP will struggle constitutionally, democratically and peacefully for the restoration of Article 370 granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir.