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PremiumOmar Abdullah J&K Election Results 2024: Omar Abdullah records sweeping victory from Budgam and Ganderbal seats in Central Kashmir in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls. He was seen keeping a watch over the vote count, from his Srinagar residence on Tuesday.
The National Conference VP upheld the legacy of his family bastion Ganderbal, by winning 32,727 votes. In Budgam, Omar Abdullah won aginst all his PDP rivals, by earning over 30,000 votes.
Ganderbal Assembly seat has been a stronghold of the National Conference. Party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah won the seat in 1977, followed by his son Farooq Abdullah, who secured victories in 1983, 1987, and 1996. Omar Abdullah was later elected from the constituency in 2008.
Earlier, the National Conference VP had alleged that Mehbooba Mufti led People's Democratic Party has not offered any help to tone down the speculations about who will form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir, till the results are out.
Omar Abdullah even labelled the exit polls as “just time pass," despite the exit polls results favouring his party and the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. Abdullah showed skepticism about the authenticity of the exit polls following previous electoral miscalculations.
