NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday resigned from the Budgam meeting seat and retained the Ganderbal seat, which is the Nationwide Convention’s (NC) bastion.
Abdullah received each the Ganderbal and Budgam seats within the lately concluded meeting polls, which passed off after a decade.
Omar Abdullah, who can be the NC vice chairman received Ganderbal by defeating PDP‘s Bashir Ahmad Mir by over 10,000 votes.He received the Budgam seat by a margin of over 18,000 votes.
In Ganderbal, Abdullah secured 32,727 votes, successful by a margin of 10,574 towards his nearest rival Mir who polled 22,153 votes.
The NC chief had received the Ganderbal seat in 2008 as effectively and went on to develop into the chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Nationwide Convention received the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting election with 42 seats and the Congress bagged 6. Each the events’ coalition crossed the bulk mark and can type the federal government quickly within the Union Territory.
The BJP received 29 and PDP bagged solely 3 seats. Within the UT election, seven impartial candidates received the seats with Satesh Sharma, who left the Congress and contested as an impartial from the Chhamb seat of Jammu area, successful the election by defeating BJP candidate Rajeev Sharma with a margin of 6,929 votes.
Abdullah was sworn in because the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on August 16, marking his second stint within the prime put up. This additionally marked the primary elected authorities within the area following the abrogation of Article 370.
