Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah is facing flak online for talking on phone while the national anthem was being played. A video of Abdullah talking on the phone while the national anthem is on during the swearing-in ceremony of Mamata Banerjee is doing the rounds on social media.Banerjee and her ministers are seen standing in attention in the nearly-one minute video.
Amdullah, the National Conference chief, is seen standing next to former Bihar chief minister lalu Prasad.Netizens slammed the veteran leader for "insulting" the national anthem."How patriot and nationalist Farooq Abdullah can afford to insult the nation and anthem like this," tweeted one while others dubbed Abdullah's phone talk "really shameful".