Farooq Abdullah meets Sonia
September 16th, 2010 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Soon after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi expressed support for Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s handling of his “tough job”, Omar’s father Farooq Abdullah, who is also a central minister, Thursday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Farooq’s meeting with Sonia at her 10, Janpath residence is still going on, a senior Congress leader told IANS. Farooq is the new and renewable energy minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s cabinet.
Describing the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister’s job as a “tough one”, Rahul, who is in Kolkata, said “we have to give support and time” to Omar Abdullah.
In Srinagar, Omar said he was “thankful to Rahul”.
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