Mamata Banerjee expresses concern over whereabouts of Farooq

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that the whereabouts of National Conference top leader Farooq Abdullah was not known and expressed concern over it.

Hitting out at the Centre, DMK president M K Stalin accused the BJP-led government of trying to recreate the "black history" of incarceration of National Conference founder Sheikh Abdullah and assured that his party will continue to oppose scrapping of Article 370.

Banerjee said if a decision was taken in respect of any particular state, people of that state should be taken into confidence, an apparent reference to scrapping of Article 370.

"Sometimes some political parties can take a decision but please remember if you take a decision about Tamil Nadu, people there should be taken into confidence," and similarly if it concerned Bengal, its populace should be consulted, she said.

Addressing the gathering at a public meeting held by the DMK to commemorate the first death anniversary of former ...