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Omar to be NC’s CM candidate: Farooq
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 3/18/2019 12:41:17 AM
‘I’ll represent J&K in Parliament’
JAMMU, Mar 17: National Conference president and former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah Sunday announced that his son Omar Abdullah will be the party’s chief ministerial candidate.
Kick-starting the party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha polls here, the party chief said he would represent Jammu and Kashmir in Parliament.
“I will not be the chief minister. The chief minister will be Omar Abdullah as he is young. I am old and I cannot match the energy of young people, but he can. I can’t run like these young men. I will go to Parliament and I have full faith that I will be there,” Farooq said addressing a party rally at Bahu Fort here.
The former chief minister asked people to support those candidates who could run the country based on the principle of equality. He also countered allegations that the National Conference discriminated against Jammu and Ladakh.
“Let us pray for unity and love, let us pray that those people come to power who can understand the pain of the people and do not only raise slogans as slogans cannot run this country,” he said.