Farooq Abdullah, son of Sheikh Abdullah, was born on the 21st of October 1936 in Srinagar in Kashmir. His father was a nationalist leader and chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah is a doctor of medicine and has served the country as a Chief Minister on many occasions since the year 1982. He represents the political party which is known as Jammu and Kashmir National conference.

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 is married to Molly Abdullah, a nurse of British origin who mostly lives in England. He 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.

At present he 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 and presently, is the minister of new and renewable energy. His son Omar Abdullah is a member of Lok Sabha and has become the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.