To wrest Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah toes Soft-Separatist line

At 79, Farooq Abdullah is a familiar face of the contest for the Srinagar parliamentary constituency, which will go to the polls for the second time in four years on Sunday. In the last poll in 2014, the NC president had suffered a rout. This is his chance to make a comeback. The Srinagar parliamentary constituency is formed of the 15 Assembly segments: eight located in Srinagar district, five in Budgam and two in Ganderbal. Srinagar, home to 1.2 million people, is a bustling district and the urban heartland of…

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