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: Seeing a hope in high voter turnout in the first-phase assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said people turning out in large numbers to cast their votes should not
Srinagar/Ranchi: Campaigning for the first phase of polling on Tuesday for 15 assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir and 13 Maoist-hit constituencies in Jharkhand ended today, with BJP hoping to continue its winning streak in
Srinagar: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi skirting any statement on Article 370, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said BJP is shying away from committing on this contentious issue and is instead keeping its “feet in
Srinagar: If affidavits filed by sitting MLAs contesting the forthcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are to be believed, the lawmakers are not being paid equally for their work.Most of the sitting MLAs in
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today exuded confidence that his party, National Conference, will do fairly well in the upcoming Assembly polls in the state and predicted that BJP will get
Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today rejected the allegations by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that two political families have “looted” Jammu and Kashmir and asked him to tell what his government has found to prove
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday accused the BJP for indulging in divisive politics to attain its 'mission 44+' (majority mark in Assembly) and termed it as a "daydream" of the
Beerwah (Kashmir): Reclaiming Tosha Maidan firing range from the Army and promising it to develop it as a tourist resort could pay dividends for Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in this Assembly seat.Beerwah is witnessing a
Beerwah (JK): Thousands of National Conference supporters painted this central Kashmir town red by carrying out a massive roadshow as party's working president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah filed his nomination from this assembly segment
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah today asked the opposition PDP to explain its sudden and complete abandonment of the party's ‘Self-Rule' document and slogans like dual currency
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference chief Omar Abdullah today said his party has a perennial bond of amity and mutual trust in the three regions of the state.“No political party has
Srinagar: A BSF jawan is reported to have opened fired accidentally in the high security area near Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's residence at Gupkar road here today.No one was injured in the
Ganderbal (J&K): In his first appearance in Ganderbal after deciding not to seek re-election from the constituency, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said he had realised that time had come for the
Ganderbal (JK): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today took on ruling coalition partner Congress, saying the party was taking credit for the good work done by the government while blaming the National Conference
Gool (JK): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today charged that Congress was trying to take credit for the creation of new administrative units by his government when the party had actually wanted to
Srinagar: After Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah decided not to contest from Ganderbal assembly seat, Opposition PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, while taking a dig, said the move has already “announced the result of
Ramban (J&K): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today hit back at Congress for its statment on “neglect” of backward areas in the state, saying the party should scan its functioning rather than finding
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Tuesday his party National Conference is neither the creation of an outside sponsor nor the baby of any agency as it owes its strength to the
Jammu: In a veiled attack on the Omar Abdullah government for “utter neglect” of backward areas in Jammu and Kashmir, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today said no development has been added in these
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday sought a majority for his National Conference (NC) in the assembly elections to bring prosperity to the state.Addressing a public rally at Chanderkote in Bannihal
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