After paying obeisance at his father Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah’s grave soon after Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked on him yesterday, Farooq Abdullah today met his son and former chief minister Omar Abdullah who has been detained under PSA at Hari Niwas at Gupkar Road this morning.
This is for the first time that the father and son had a one-on-one meeting after they were detained following the abrogation of Article 370.
“He went to see Omar at Hari Niwas today. It was an emotional meet,’’ said Saffiya Abdullah, Farooq’s daughter.
Whether they were feeling relieved by revoking of PSA against her father, she said, ”We will be when bhai chootega tab (when my brother is freed).”
She said her father was doing fine but they are limiting the number of visitors due to the coronavirus threat and his surgery for cataract.
Yesterday, Farooq’s younger brother Mustafa Kamal, elder sister Khalida her son Muzaffar came to meet him hours after he addressed the press.
This for the first time the Abdullah siblings had a reunion after the BJP’s Article 370 move.
Soon after being released, scores of NC (National Conference) workers have come to meet Farooq from different parts of Kashmir.
Senior Congress leader and leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad also met Farooq this afternoon.
Azad has been the most vocal critic of the BJP for its Article 370 move and detention of political leaders in Kashmir.
He had taken head-on Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament on August 5, 2019, when the Article 370 was revoked and Jammu and Kashmir was reorganised— bifurcated into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.