Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and sought his intervention to ensure safety of Kashmiri students and traders in various parts of the country.

A blast took place inside a private school in Narbal village of Kakapora area of the south Kashmir district this afternoon.

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Omar Abdullah praised Rahul Gandhi for leading the Congress to victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: He said the BJP should not shy away from blaming Modi for the defeat.

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The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said, "any misadventure could disturb the fragile and precarious peace" in the sensitive state of Jammu and Kashmir.

After Omar’s challenge, BJP leader said he wasn't questioning anyone's “patriotism”.

Talking to media at a press conference in Jammu, Abdullah also slammed BJP leader Ram Madhav for suggesting that NC and PDP were acting on behest of 'foreign power'.

“An election which won't see people's participation is considered to be an election by Centre, what can we say? We haven't asked people to not participate or boycott the elections, we have just said that our party won't take part in it,” Abdullah said.

Jammu and Kashmir's urban body elections are to be held in October after a gap of 13 years and the Panchayat elections are to be held after a gap of 7 years, in the month of November and December.

A batch of petitions is before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the provision which confers special status to permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir.

"The Congress has to be the backbone as the lion's share of seats of the opposition in one particular party will have to be from it as there are a number of states where there will be direct contest between the Congress and the BJP," he said.

Speaking on their respective parties, Omar's National Conference (NC) and Mamata's Trinamool Congress (TMC), he said that there is no difference between the parties.

 “There are a lot of things I will be critical of PM Modi for but attempting to repair India’s relations with Pakistan is certainly not one of them. I’m not even getting in to the internal politics of Pakistan that makes this tweet even more disappointing,” Omar Abdullah said

The state opposition leader's remarks came after his meeting with Governor NN Vohra in the wake of BJP pulling out of its coalition government with the PDP in the state.

The chief minister appealed to all stakeholders to reciprocate positively to the gesture aimed at giving relief to the people of the state who have seen enough "torment and tragedy".

A group of miscreants pelted stones on the bus of Rainbow High School at Zavoora in Shopian, resulting in head injury to a class 2 student, a police official said.

The terrorists opened indiscriminate firing at the vehicle. The leader was rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The condition of the other two injured is stated to be serious.

Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists today struck at an Army camp on the outskirts of Jammu city, killing two junior commissioned officers (JCOs) and injuring six others, including a Major and a daughter of an Army personnel.