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: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said he will not stop opposing BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate in spite of party's leader from Bihar Giriraj Singh asking Narendra Modi's opponents to go to
Srinagar: Amidst a controversy over Syed Ali Shah Geelani's claim that Narendra Modi had sent emissaries to meet him, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today questioned the secrecy behind the move and asked
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Jammu: Attacking Narendra Modi over discarding Advani and adopting Adani, Rahul Gandhi lashed out at the BJP government for failing to reach out to the masses with a personal touch. He once again pounded on
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today termed BJP's manifesto as “mere sloganeering” and said issues like Common Civil Code, Ram temple and Article 370 are handles for the party to come to
Jammu: Calling Rahul Gandhi a “great friend” of Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said he was the fittest to lead the country and it would be “most unfortunate” if Narendra Modi became
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said BJP leader Narendra Modi carries a communal stigma and lacks a representative character needed to be India's prime minister.Addressing election rallies in the Poonch district
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday said there was no 'Modi wave' in India, particularly in his state, and described the BJP assertion as a "hoax"."People in the state and elsewhere in
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday questioned opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) petitioning the Election Commission over the video of state Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo seeking a religious pledge for
Srinagar: BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has been playing fast and loose with the truth, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Wednesday.Reacting to Narendra Modi's speech at Hira Nagar in Kathua district
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for denying ticket to its senior party leader Jaswant Singh.Omar accused the BJP of denying nomination to people
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday expressed concern over the delay in the announcement of Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in the state."I'm keenly waiting for the Congress to announce
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed regret that BJP was making withdrawal of sedition charges against Kashmiri students in Meerut an election issue.Participating in the two-day India Today conclave here,
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