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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Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had been set up, days before the February 7 Assembly elections in Delhi.“#AAP can't explain the failure of its due
Jammu: The National Conference will back Congress' Ghulam Nabi Azad in the Feb 7 Rajya Sabha elections for four seats in Jammu and Kashmir.This was decided after an hour long meeting between National Conference leader
Srinagar: National Conference working president Omar Abdullah today expressed condolences to the families of the two security personnel killed in an encounter with militants in Tral area of Kashmir. “My heartfelt condolences to the families
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today saw praise for Manmohan Singh in US President Barack Obama's comments on poverty alleviation in India.“Obama - ‘Millions have been lifted out of poverty in
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said Kashmir might not have figured during talks between US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi but the Valley has made its presence
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today made a fresh demand for establishing a truth and reconciliation commission in the state for addressing the issues related to both Pandit and Muslim communities
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today sought explanation from the Centre for the delay in giving relief package to flood victims as the state was now under its direct rule. “Dear
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said the Centre issuing ordinances cannot be justified by the fact that the previous government had also done the same.“Just because ABC issued XYZ number
Srinagar: People's Democratic Party (PDP) today said it will consider National Conference's (NC) offer of support for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir at an appropriate party forum as peace in the state was its
Srinagar: In a new political twist in Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference today formally offered support to PDP in a letter to Governor N N Vohra for forming a government that could break the logjam
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) working president Omar Abdullah today said all the party candidates from the Valley for the recent Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections have endorsed its stand of not entering into an alliance
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today questioned the delay in government formation in the state, saying BJP and PDP should explain it.“Will someone from @jkpdp or @BJP4India please tell us why
Srinagar: The National Conference today said it would not enter into a coalition with BJP to form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir, while reiterating the party's offer of support to PDP.“We are not
Jammu: Two days after governor's rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir following failure of political parties to reach a consensus to form government, BJP today said a stable government would soon be in place
Srinagar: Imposition of Centre's rule in Jammu and Kashmir has raised hopes among the victims of last year's devastating floods that the process of rehabilitation will be expedited now even as the political parties continue
Srinagar: In a thanksgiving gesture, NC leader Omar Abdullah today visited several areas of Beerwah constituency, the seat he won in the recently concluded Assembly polls.This visit came days after Omar relinquished the post of
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party, which has not been able to cobble an alliance for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, today blamed former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for forcing Governor's Rule on the state. “We had
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today blamed PDP for bringing the state under Governor's rule and accused its patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed of continuing the deadlock over government formation to get
Srinagar: The political impasse in Jammu and Kashmir today took a new turn with Omar Abdullah asking Governor N N Vohra to relieve him as caretaker Chief Minister, saying the state needed a full-time administrator
Srinagar: Separatist leader and chairman of Hurriyat Conference breakaway group Syed Ali Geelani has appealed to Kashmiri Muslims to stop the PDP from forming govt with BJP by all means.Addressing the executive council (majlis-e-shoora) meeting
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