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: National Conference candidate from Baramulla assembly constituency Ghulam Hassan Rahi has stoked a controversy by saying the calls for boycott of elections in the state is part of a "democratic" process."This is a democracy.
Srinagar: Condoling the death of security personnel and civilians in separate militant attacks in the Valley today, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed hope that the central government would plug the gaps in
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said it was "impossible" for his party, the National Conference (NC), to join hands with the BJP, trashing reports about the party giving any such
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said it was due to his demand for revocation of AFSPA that fake encounters and killings like Machil and Nowgam were taken “a lot more seriously”
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said the attack on the Army camp in Uri area of Baramulla district was a “desperate attempt” to disrupt peace and normalcy.“Once again shows the
Soibugh (Kashmir): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has accused former CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed of being responsible for imposition of controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the state during his tenure
Nagrota: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday slammed Congress for finding faults in the functioning of his government at the fag end of the coalition regime and asked why the party did
Nagrota: In the wake of the controversy over the hate speech by Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must apologise to the
Srinagar: Union Minister Arun Jaitley will today chair an “intellectual” meet in Srinagar.The BJP has invited engineers, advocates, businessman and even college principles for the session.“We are expecting 1000 people in the intellectual meet to
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today maintained that his National Conference will spring a surprise on the counting day, saying the high voter turnout in the state represents the will of the
Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today vowed to defeat all designs to fragment the state and to weaken its special status, while accusing three major parties BJP, Congress and PDP - of “uniting” in their
Poonch: After six years of power-sharing, National Conference on Sunday said it did not compel Congress to forge an alliance with it to form government in Jammu and Kashmir and said its top brass was
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today accused Sajad Gani Lone of ganging up with the BJP, which he alleged wants to end the special status of the state, a charge which the
Anantnag: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has ruled out any possibility of joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form government in the state.Speaking to media after addressing an election rally
Jammu: BJP today hit back at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for his remarks that BJP leadership was ignorant about ground realities of Jammu and Kashmir, asking why the NC leader had not resolved the issues
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said it "cannot be a coincidence" that the Arnia militant attack came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif attended the SAARC
Vijaypur (J&K): Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today hit out at Congress for trying to take credit for all the good work done by NC-led government and described the attitude of the party as the highest
Vijaypur (J&K): Hitting out at BJP for allegedly misleading the people in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed surprise over the ignorance of BJP and its leadership about the ground realities in
Srinagar: The element of “suspicion and hostility” between India and Pakistan should be removed and both the countries should sit across the dialogue table and resolve their differences, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and working president of the National Conference (NC) Omar Abdullah Wednesday said the high voter turnout in the state assembly polls is a success of democracy.He filed his nomination
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