Public holiday on Sheikh Abdullah’s birth anniv to be restored: Dy CM
Hindustan TimesDeputy chief minister Surinder Choudhary on Thursday said that the Omar Abdullah government will soon restore public holiday on the birth anniversary of late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, which falls on December 5. Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah pay floral tribute to party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 119th birth anniversary at his grave Naseem Bagh-Hazratbal, in Srinagar on Thursday. Post abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of erstwhile J&K state into two union territories on August 5, 2019, the public holiday on Sheikh Abdullah’s birthday was cancelled from 2020 by the LG’s administration. Later, Choudhary and other cabinet minister Javed Rana besides other party leaders paid tribute to Sheikh Abdullah on his 119th birth anniversary at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan here.
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