Srinagar, Dec 5: Former Chief Ministers Farooq Abdullah, his son Omar Abdullah and other NC leaders on Saturday paid tributes to late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, founder of National Conference (NC) on his 115th birth anniversary.
The NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar set in motion party membership drive 2020-2021 and first tickets were taken by party president and vice president.
Wearing masks and keeping social distance Abdullah and other NC leaders offered fateha and floral wreaths at the grave of former CM Sheikh Abdullah, who played an important role in signing of accession of Jammu and Kashmir with the Union of India by Maharaja Hari Singh on October 26, 1947.
Later Omar also offered fateha and floral tributes at the grave of grand father Sheikh Abdullah.
While paying tributes to Sheikh Abdullah, Sagar said, “The spirit of secularism and tolerance possessed by Sher-e-Kashmir was the cumulative effect of the environment which generation after generation has fine-tuned the psyche of Kashmiris. Sher-e-Kashmir exhibited the spirit of tolerance, mutual respect and camaraderie towards all religions, sects and creeds. He made earnest efforts to strengthen it; his political struggle for the restoration of people’s rights wasn’t exclusive, on the contrary it was inclusive. He worked tirelessly, suffered incarcerations throughout for the total redemption of the entire human kind living in Jammu and Kashmir from abject poverty.”
Abdullah, NC leaders pay tributes to Sheikh on his 115th birthday
