Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah thought that it was better to go to South Africa for the IPL than go through the drab exercise of watching Dr Manmohan Singh being sworn in as prime minister for second time along with cabinet colleagues.
Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Arun Jaitley, who is president of Delhi District Cricket Association will give Abdullah company in South Africa.
Incidentally Adbullah's name was struck off the list of ministers after the Buddhists in Ladhakh threatened to launch a massive agitation. Power minister Rigzin Jora in Omar Abdullah's cabinet wrote a letter to Congress president pointing out the communal overtones of Adbullah's comments during the