Farooq Abdullah suggests 'controlled democracy' for India

President of National Conference Farooq Abdullah today said time has come for India to have "controlled democracy" on the lines of Malaysia to get quicker results of long-pending issues.

Speaking on the solutions for Kashmir issue, Abdullah said both India and Pakistan need to find a solution which is acceptable for majority of Indians, majority of Pakistanis and people of Jammu and Kashmir.

"Are we ready for that? After all, our prime minister had met the prime minister of Pakistan how many times? And even after Sharm-Al Sheikh (Egypt) discussion, the flak we got in India. My God. Because we were also a party which is thinking of only one interest," he said.

Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Abdullah said "our democracy is so much that it destoys ourselves".

"The time has come that India has controlled democracy like Malaysia has. The solutions will be quicker. These are things we must start thinking and I think if we do not do that, we will never find solutions," Abdullah said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here.

Abdullah said India and Pakistan should accept ground realities that neither Indian side of Kashmir could go to Pakistan nor Pakistan-occupied Kashmir can come to India. He said borders can be opened but then it cannot be done if there is hatred and guns and grenades are blazing.

Abdullah said Kashmir became part of India by its own will as they accepted Gandhiji's India where all Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs have equal right to vote.