बडगाम और गांदरबल में से कौन सी सीट छोड़ेंगे उमर अब्दुल्ला, दिया ये जवाब

Jammu and Kashmir: The National Conference and Congress coalition government has got majority in the first elections held after the abolition of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Omar Abdullah will be the Chief Minister in the new government. This was announced by his father Farooq Abdullah himself after the election results on Tuesday. Now the problem facing Omar Abdullah is that he can remain MLA from only one seat, in such a situation he will have to leave one of the two seats.

Omar won from Budgam by 18 thousand votes

Won Budgam assembly seat in Jammu and Kashmir, defeating Agha Syed Muntajir Mehdi of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) by a margin of over 18,000 votes. Abdullah secured 36,010 votes in Budgam while Mehdi got 17,525 votes. The NC vice president had also contested elections in 2014 from two seats, Sonwar in Srinagar and Beerwah in Budgam district. He had won from Beerwah seat. Abdullah had lost the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla Lok Sabha seat in North Kashmir. He was defeated by independent candidate Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, who was then lodged in Tihar jail on terrorism financing charges. Rashid is currently on bail.

Omar won from Ganderbal by 10 thousand votes

Omar Abdullah also won from the party’s stronghold Ganderbal assembly seat. Abdullah defeated PDP’s Bashir Ahmed Mir by more than 10 thousand votes. In Ganderbal, Abdullah secured 32,727 votes and won by a margin of 10,574 votes over his nearest rival Mir. Mir got 22,153 votes. The National Conference leader had also won the Ganderbal seat in 2008 and became the chief minister of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state. Former Ganderbal MLA Ishfaq Jabbar got 6,060 votes and stood third.

I will have to give up one seat

When Omar Abdullah was asked which seat from Budgam and Ganderbal would he keep and which would he leave? On this he said that I have won the elections from two seats. I will have to give up one seat. No decision has been taken regarding this yet. I will take a final decision on this after discussing with other people within the party.

National Conference got 42 seats

Out of 90 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the state’s oldest regional party National Conference (NC) emerged as the largest party by winning 42 seats and got only six seats less than the majority on its own. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) managed to win the only seat allotted to it under the seat-sharing agreement, while the Congress Party won six seats, five of which are in the Kashmir Valley.