Dr. Farooq Abdullah is the Minister of New and Renewable Energy. He is a doctor of medicine by profession and was appointed as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since the year 1982. Farooq Abdullah, son of Sheikh Abdullah, was born on the 21st of October 1936 in
Srinagar in
Kashmir. He belongs to the political party which is known as
Jammu and Kashmir National conference.
Career of Dr. Farooq Abdullah
Farooq Abdullah was appointed as the President of the National Conference on the 21st of August in the year 1981. He was a beginner then in the political arena of Jammu and Kashmir. His major eligibility was that he was the son and heir of the nationalist Kashmiri leader, Sheikh Abdullah.
The government under Abdullah was substituted with a pro-Congress government under Ghulam Mohammed Shah in the year 1984. Farooq Abdullah was dismissed because of his refusal to get into an alliance with the
Indian National Congress in the 1983 assembly election. His decision went against the then Congress president and Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi. Later in the year 1987, Farooq Abdullah counterfeited an alliance with the Congress and came back as a temporary chief minister. Farooq Abdullah has supported the formalisation for the Line of control as the international border between India and Pakistan and had also advocated sovereignty for Jammu and Kashmir within the constitution of India. In the year 2002, Farooq Abdullah was designated in the
Rajya Sabha from Jammu and Kashmir for his first term of 6 years. He was later re-elected in the year 2009.
At present Farooq Abdullah is an active and popular politician and has handed over the responsibility of his party to his able son Omar Abdullah. He contested during the Indian general election 2009 from the Srinagar,
Lok Sabha constituency and won it in a massive margin. Because of the alliance of his party, the National conference with the ruling party, the Indian National Congress, Dr. Farooq Abdullah was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister on the 28th of May 2009.
Personal Life of Dr. Farooq Abdullah
Farooq Abdullah married Mollied Abdullah. They have a son and three daughters.
(Last Updated on : 12/12/2011)
