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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Mehbooba Mufti's PDP is contesting the Lok Sabha Elections independently while Congress and National Conference are fighting in alliance with each other in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Centre had abrogated Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019 in a historic move. The National Conference and PDP have been demanding its restoration and have vowed to "keep the struggle alive" until it happens.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Congress-led Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) includes several parties such as DMK, RJD, Shiv Sena-UBT, JMM, AAP, SP and IUML among others. Nitish Kumar's JDU and RLD led by Jayant Chaudhary left the bloc and joined hands with the BJP.
Lok Sabha elections in two Union Territories -- Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh -- will take place in the first five phases. Together two UTs have a total of six parliamentary seats.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Lok Sabha polls in the Union Territory will be held in the first five phases on April 19 (Udhampur), April 26 (Jammu), May 7 (Anantnag-Rajouri), May 13 (Srinagar) and May 20 (Baramulla).
Noting that the Prime Minister has used the ‘Parivar’ issue well, Abdullah said that the Opposition has done “self-goal” by passing such comments as these do not work in perception of the public.
Srinagar Lok Sabha Election 2024: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) leader and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah represented the Srinagar constituency thrice in a row in 1998, 1999 and 2004.
'Maharani', created by Subhash Kapoor, was shot inside the assembly complex in Jammu in June last year. The series is inspired by political turns in Bihar in the 1990s when the then chief minister Lalu Prasad, mired in the infamous fodder scam, installed his wife Rabri Devi as his successor.
Omar Abdullah on Article 370 abrogation: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said that the two bills on Jammu and Kashmir moved for approval in the Lok Sabha pertain to providing rights to those who faced injustice and were insulted and ignored.
Omar Abdullah's statement came after two army personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Wednesday (November 22) in an encounter between security forces and terrorists.
Omar Abdullah hit out at the BJP over the polls in Jammu and Kashmir and alleged that even the Lok Sabha elections would not have been held, had it not been a matter of compulsion. He questioned the delay in holding elections in the Union Territory.
Jammu and Kashmir former chief minister Omar Abdullah has said that it's good India is sending aid to Palestine but called out the world for differentiating between Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.
National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah and son Omar said that they are hopeful of India's Moon mission Chandrayaan-3's success.
Omar Abdullah welcomed the government's decision to allow the Muharram procession on the traditional route through Lal Chowk after over three decades and also demanded the release of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq from house arrest.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was confronted by former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah in the Patna opposition meeting on June 23 over the former's support to the revocation of Article 370 from the then state in 2019.
Till now, Kejriwal has met Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav, Hemant Soren, MK Stalin, Sitaram Yechury, K. Chandrashekar Rao, Mamata Banerjee and Nitish Kumar.
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah sought an answer from the Election Commission of India over not conducting assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir.
Karnataka Election Results 2023: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said there is "no way" the BJP will have the courage to "allow" assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir after its performance in the Karnataka polls.
Former J&K CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti invoked Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary while praising Rahul Gandhi for the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Speaking about the yatra, PDP president Mufti said the Bharat Jodo Yatra was like a 'breath of fresh air' in Kashmir as it allowed people to come out of their homes in numbers for the first time since 2019.
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