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, Oct 7 : Pandemonium on Thursday broke out in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly after opposition BJP and National Panthers Party MLAs tried to storm into the well of the House over Chief Minister
Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday that neither he nor his council of ministers were acting as puppets of the Centre."We are not puppets. We take decisions for our people
New Delhi/Srinagar, Sept 25 : The eight-point Centre's initiative to address the unrest in Kashmir valley was on Saturday welcomed by the mainstream and regional parties in J and K as a "positive development" and
Tangmarg (J&K), Sep 21: Expressing satisfaction over the all-party delegation's visit to Kashmir Valley, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said it was the endeavour of his government that the visiting team got a balanced
Srinagar, Sept 19 : A woman bystander was killed when security forces opened fire on Sunday to quell a mob of protesters at Sopore in the Valley where curfew was reimposed in major towns including
Srinagar, Sep 19 : On the eve of an all-party delegation visit to Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday ruled out his resignation and hoped the controversial AFSPA would be removed from the entire
New Delhi: As the D-Day of September 24 for the title case verdict approaches, political leaders including BJP's L K Advani and religious bodies on Saturday renewed calls for calm and restraint underscoring that further
New Delhi, Sep 16: Amid reports of PDP move to revive ties with Congress, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Thursday met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after which he declared
NEW DELHI: Facing criticism over his handling of the unrest in Kashmir Valley, J and K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said he was "grateful" to Rahul Gandhi for backing him. "I am very
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said in Kolkata on Thursday that the Centre would give time and support to chief minister Omar Abdullah to get over the problem of law and order in the Valley.
New Delhi: The all-party meeting on Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday decided to send a delegation of political leaders to the state to assess the ground situation but failed to arrive at a consensus on
New Delhi: Amid a flare-up in violence in Kashmir, the government on Monday deferred a decision on the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act but called an all-party meeting on Wednesday and expressed readiness for
Srinagar: In a sudden flare-up of violence in Kashmir today, 17 people, including a policeman, were killed and over 70 injured with mobs torching several government properties and a school, some of the trouble triggered
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday assured a delegation of Sikhs that the government will trace the mischievous elements involved in writing anonymous letters asking Sikhs to embrace Islam or
Srinagar: In an Indpendence Day-eve bonanza, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday announced his government will recruit 50,000 youths in the next few months and pitched for restoration of autonomy to the
Srinagar, Terming the ongoing unrest in the state as a "difficult period", Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said some people were bent on diverting the anger of younger generation in a
Opposition PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday in Srinagar, rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal to attend an all-party meeting convened by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tomorrow to discuss the situation in Kashmir and sought
Curfew was lifted in the entire Kashmir Valley on Sunday after six days with improvement in the situation even as the ruling coalition-National Conference and the Congress rallied behind beleaguered Chief Minister Omar Abdullah by
As a goodwill gesture, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday ordered release of separatist leader Shabir Shah. An official spokesman said the Chief Minister's order had been communicated to the state police,
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