2 min readSrinagarDec 5, 2011 04:21 PM IST
First published on: Dec 5, 2011 at 04:21 PM IST
National Conference leaders and workers today paid homage to the party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 106th birth anniversary which was celebrated across Jammu and Kashmir.
NC president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah,his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other party leaders – including ministers,MLAs and MLCs – joined hundreds of NC workers at the grave of Sheikh at Naseembagh on the outskirts of the city and paid floral tributes to him.
However,unlike previous years,Sheikh’s younger son and MLA Sheikh Mustafa Kamal did not arrive with his elder brother Farooq. He visited the grave separately.
Mustafa was stripped off the posts of NC spokesman and additional general secretary last month following his controversial statements about army,coalition partner Congress and Omar.
The party leaders offered ‘Fateh Khawani (special prayer)’ at the graveyard on the banks of Dal Lake near holy Hazratbal Shrine.
Paying rich tributes to his grandfather,Omar said he was the aspirations of people of J-K and symbol of unity and amity.
“Sheikh Sahib denotes the state’s high traits of pluralistic ethos and communal harmony. He nurtured and strengthened this characteristic and cemented the bonds of love between various sections of the society and different regions of the state,” the chief minister said.
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