Srinagar: National Conference President and Member Parliament Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Monday paid glowing tributes to Alama Sir Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal on the observance of Iqbal Day.
While paying glowing tributes to Sir Muhammad Iqbal on his birth anniversary Dr Farooq said Allama Iqbal was a great philosophical poet and thinker. “NC founder late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (SMA) had a long association with the celebrated poet and both were concerned about the apathetic condition of Kashmiris. Allama Iqbal’s political viewpoint was centred on reforming Muslim societies and it was this vision, along with the concept of khudi or higher self that became a source of inspiration for NC patriarch late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (SMA) who took it upon himself to transform the fate of wretched people of Jammu & Kashmir from despondency to opulence with land to tiller reforms, abolition of big landed estates, gender neutral voting rights, free education, women’s emancipation, universal adult franchise, and other sleuth of measures,” he said.
