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: Awami Ittehad Party president Sheikh Abdul Rashid today called for a special session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly to pass a resolution demanding complete restoration of the autonomy which the state enjoys
Srinagar: Contending that it was impossible for the BJP government to abrogate Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said such confusion was being deliberately created on
Srinagar/New Delhi: The controversy over Article 370 continued unabated today with RSS hitting back at Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for his remarks but he made it clear that it cannot be revoked
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday asked the central government to come clean on who are the "stakeholders" it was talking about on the contentious issue of revocation of Article 370 of
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said he was glad that Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has accepted the invitation to attend Narendra Modi's oath-taking ceremony as Prime Minister and hoped that this
Srinagar: Ruling National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir today held a meeting of its core group here to analyse the reasons for the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha elections.“A core group meeting was held
Srinagar: With National Conference drawing a blank in the Lok Sabha elections, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today sought to know the reasons from the people of the state for the rejection of
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said he acknowledges people's grievances expressed through a drubbing of National Conference-Congress coalition in the Lok Sabha polls even though his government served the people of the
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today took “total responsibility” for complete rout of the National Conference-Congress coalition in Lok Sabha polls in the state, and said the result was a “rude awakening”
Srinagar: BJP leader Narendra Modi's probable rise to the top job in India invokes both hope and uncertainty among people in Jammu and Kashmir.Whichever way the locals view Modi, nobody doubts that once in power,
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has dismissed the predictions made by various exit polls as a “great time pass”.“The only exit poll that matters is the one that is slated for Friday
Noida/Srinagar: Three Kashmiri students from a private university in Greater Noida have alleged that fellow students misbehaved with them and forced them to shout anti-Pakistan slogans, drawing a sharp reaction from the Jammu and Kashmir
New Delhi: A group of Kashmiri Pandits today held protest here over recent remarks by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah that the exodus of the community from the Valley took place in 1990
Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday termed as "wrong" the Centre's announcement for setting up a judicial commission to probe the snoopgate issue allegedly involving Narendra Modi. Omar, whose National Conference
Kolkata: Amid the poll potpourri, the fashion quotient of political leaders like Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi has also caught the attention of people, particularly youth, say designers here.According to designer Abhishek Dutta, BJP prime
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today blamed Narendra Modi for inciting violence in Assam that left 32 Muslims dead.“In Assam, 30 Muslims were murdered. Why? Because BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi
Srinagar: Union Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah today said if India becomes communal it will be a tragedy for the state. After casting his vote here, he said his previous comments which evoked
New Delhi/Srinagar: Taking on National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah who said those voting for Narendra Modi should "jump into the sea", the BJP prime ministerial candidate hit back, blaming Abdullah and his family for the
Ahmedabad/New Delhi: Narendra Modi today hit back at Farooq Abdullah for his remark that those voting for the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate should drown in sea, saying the biggest blow to secularism in India was
Srinagar: Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said it was “beneath my dignity” to respond to the claims of ruling National Conference that his party had a ‘secret alliance' with BJP
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