Row over Sher-e-Kashmir title to Sheikh Abdullah

The political scuffle between the ruling People’s Democratic Party and the opposition National Conference took a curious turn on Sunday when the Jammu & Kashmir government’s general administration department declared there was nobody with the title of ‘Sher-e-Kashmir’ in reply to an RTI question, leaving the Abdullah family chaffing and the PDP perplexed. Sheikh Abdullah, the founder of the National Conference who thrice served as the head of government in Kashmir and is the progenitor of the first “political family” of the state, was referred to as Sher-e-Kashmir by his…

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