Farooq meets PM, HM

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New Delhi, July 10: New and Renewable Energy Minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah Saturday separately met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram and requested assistance so that his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah could tide over the volatile situation in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
 According to sources, Abdullah assured the prime minister and the home minister that he would assist Omar in restoring normalcy in the Valley. After the meetings,Abdullah left for Srinagar where he began consultations with Omar, state ministers and other political leaders.
 Abdullah, a three-time chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and patron of the ruling National Conference, had been abroad for the past 10 days on official and personal work while the situation in Kashmir turned volatile, posing the gravest challenge to the 18-month National Conference-Congress government.

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