OMAR ABDULLAH HAS always been a suave man. Which is why that photo went viral—the one showing the usually clean-shaven leader sporting a bushy, unkempt grey beard. Snowflakes clung to his woollen cap and blue jacket, and Omar looked far removed from the man who had once been chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
The former Union minister and National Conference vice president has been in detention since August 4, 2019, one day before the Centre abrogated Article 370.
The photo sent shockwaves across social media, and some politicians, including DMK president M.K. Stalin and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, tweeted their concern for Omar.
A month before Omar was detained, he had told THE WEEK in an interview: “If there is no constitutional (Article 370) relationship— and clearly there is no emotional relationship—then what relationship exists? Only a military one.”
His father and party president Farooq Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti were among 50-plus Kashmiri politicians detained a day before the abrogation.
While Omar has been held in Hari Niwas, Farooq has been detained at his house on Gupkar Road in Srinagar. Mehbooba was lodged in a guest house at Chashme Shahi in Srinagar, but was later moved to a warmer location—a government bungalow on M.A. Road.
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