Omar Abdullah is the vice president of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) and the former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir from 2009 to 2015. He became the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in 2009. He became the Minister of State for External Affairs in 2001 under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He three times represented the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency in 1998, 1999, and 2004. In the 1998 Lok Sabha polls, Abdullah won the Srinagar seat by defeating Congress candidate Aga Syed Mohdi by a margin of 70,839 votes. Omar retained his seat in the 1999 Lok Sabha Election after defeating independent candidate Mehbooba Mufti by 36,859 votes. He again won the constituency in 2004 by defeating Advocate Ghulam Nabi Lone of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (JKPDP). Abdullah contested the 2002 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections from Ganderbal but lost to JKPDP candidate Qazi Mohd Afzal by 2,870 votes. However, he successfully won the seat in the 2008 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections when he defeated Afzal by 8,215 votes. In 2014, he fought from two constituencies, Beerwah and Sonawar. He won the Beerwah seat by defeating Congress candidate Nazir Ahmad Khan with a margin of just 910 votes. However, he was defeated by Mohammad Ashraf Mir of the JKPDP in Sonawar. He became the Leader of the Opposition in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in 2015. In the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, Omar Abdullah was decisively defeated by independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh by 2,04,142 votes in Baramulla. Omar is again contesting from two seats, namely Ganderbal and Budgam, in the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections.
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New Delhi: Omar Abdullah today came out in strong support of Arvind Kejriwal on the issue of his ongoing tussle with the Delhi Lt Governor, saying Jammu and Kashmir had to pay a “heavy price”
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today took a swipe at the Prime Minister's statements on India and its foreign policy during the latter's three-nation tour.“Actually the ‘Look East' policy was NDA-1's
New Delhi: Amid row over appointment of new acting Chief Secretary of Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today sought opinion of Delhities through social media.Accusing senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin of "being close" to power companies,
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today backed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his face off with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung saying the head of the government should be free to
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be able to resolve the issue of stapled visa with Chinese authorities during his ongoing visit to
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and opposition National Conference working president Omar Abdullah today said it was the duty of his party to fight for rights of people of the state and to
Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah today criticised ruling PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on the issue of invoking of Public Safety Act (PSA) on Hurriyat Conference leader Masarat Alam."Where is Mehbooba Mufti? The person I'm
Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah today said that the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir has been a change for the worse.“This @jkpdp & @BJP4India Govt after the Modi/Mufti accord is a change
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today condemned the killing of a youth in central Kashmir Budgam district, demanding responsibility be fixed immediately and the guilty punished. “I strongly condemn the killing
Srinagar: Moderate Hurriyat Conference today hit out at National Conference leader Omar Abdullah for advocating conversion of Line of Control between India and Pakistan into a permanent border, saying he was running away from the
Washington: Asserting that the current status quo is not an answer to the Kashmir problem, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has called for converting the Line of Control (LoC) into an international
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government today hinted at reassessing the proposal seeking a financial package of Rs 44,000 crore for the victims of last year's devastating floods, which was submitted by the previous dispensation."We
New Delhi: National Conference working President Omar Abdullah today took a dig at Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed's stand in the state Assembly on townships for displaced Kashmiri Pandits, going back on his
Jammu: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed his opposition to state and central governments' plans for building “composite townships” for Kashmiri Pandits saying no one will support “ghettoisation” in segregated and
Jammu: Taking a dig at Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for his remark on AFSPA, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah today said the CM has rushed to New Delhi to explain his comment on the
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the attack on a police party in which three unarmed policemen were killed in Shopian district was a grim reminder of the challenges in
Jammu: National Conference (NC) members led by Omar Abdullah today staged a walkout from Jammu and Kashmir Assembly over failure of the government to reply to a call attention motion of their member on the
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today urged the state government to take all possible measures to ensure prevention of loss to life and property in the Valley in the wake of
Srinagar: National Conference's working president Omar Abdullah today asked the Centre to operate additional flights between Jammu and Srinagar to allow people to return home in Kashmir in view of closure of the only road
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said it seemed that AAP "has decided to be more like us" while many advised traditional political parties to be more like the Arvind Kejriwal-ledoutfit.The
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