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Farooq bids goodbye

By Our Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR JULY 16. "This is goodbye to politics and all of you. The person who will replace me here will be from the National Conference," the 66-year-old Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, said in the Assembly today.

Dr. Abdullah has been hinting at quitting office for the last several weeks, saying the Union Minister of State for External Affairs and National Conference president, Omar Abdullah, would take over the reins of Government. Today, he told the MLAs it was the last Assembly session he would attend and also the last term of the Government he would presiding over. He feared more militant strikes during the coming visits of the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw.

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