ANC pays tributes to Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah

Srinagar, Dec 4 : Begum Khalida Shah, Awami National Conference President and eldest daughter of Sher-e- Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah paid floral tributes to her father on his 118th birth anniversary observed today throughout Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh, a press release said.

In a statement , she said that Sher-e- Kashmir's struggle is an open book and he will always be remembered as a leader, teacher, guide, friend and philosopher for his contributions in taking the common masses out of abject poverty and subjugation after hundreds of years.”

Be it the land to tiller, free education, emancipation of women, setting up of universities in Jammu and Kashmir, laying of infrastructure for roads, hospitals, education centers with all round developmental programmes for all the three regions of the state. There is no parallel to such contributions from a leader for his people,” the ANC President said.