Omar Abdullah To Be CM of Jammu and Kashmir

New Delhi: Omar Abdullah will be appointed as chief minister National Conference, in alliance with Congress, was able to achieve a comfortable majority in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly election, declared the National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media outside his house, Farooq Abdullah said, “People have given their mandate; they have proven that they don’t accept the decision that was taken on August 5…Omar Abdullah will be the chief minister.”

National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah won with a margin of over 16,000 votes against PDP candidate Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam seat. He is also leading in the Ganderbal seat, where he also contested.

The National Conference-Congress alliance has crossed the halfway mark and secured 47 seats out of 90, and is set to form the government. Of these, 41 seats belong to the National Conference and 6 to Indian National Congress. The NC is leading on one more seat.