``Dr Farooq Abdullah will not become Hindu merely because the BJP government is in power in Delhi,'' he said while speaking at a function organised by employees of the Megh community to celebrate the 600th birth anniversary of Sant Kabir at Kunjwani near Jammu last night.

Abdullah decried ``frequent attempts at destabilising and toppling governments at the Centre'' before they could do any good for the people saying this tendency would ``weaken our country''. This type of instability had almost brought the process of development to a standstill, he said.

He recalled that the Deve Gowda government was pulled down before it could complete eight months. The Gujral government suffered a near-similar fate and now, the Vajpayee government had barely completed 100 days when attempts to topple it had begun, he said.

``What is wrongwith the Vajpayee government and where is the need to pull it down?''he asked.

He said every government had a responsibility towards the country and its people and they should be given sufficient time to perform and deliver the goods.

Unlike some other countries where prime ministers and presidents remained in power for six to seven years even 14 years as in France the life of a government in our country was hardly more than a few months, Abdullah pointed out. ``Where are we headed?'' he asked.

The Chief Minister said while the country has ``progressed tremendously'' since Independence in terms of trade and industry what still remained was ``our mentality of leg-pulling a tendency which will impede the progress and prosperity of the country''.

He also declined to accept the demand for a holiday on Kabir's birthday saying people should work hard and ``do something positive'' for society rather than demand holidays ``on one pretext or the other''. The number of holidays need to be slashed, he said.