Tag: Omar Abdullah

DMK chief M K Stalin on Wednesdaydialled the country's top political leaders including Congress President Sonia Gandhi and CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, seeking their cooperation in "exerting pressure" on the Centre to provide OBC reservation in medical admissions. Stalin also spoke to non-BJP, non-Congress ...

Nearly a year after New Delhi’s historic but controversial action of changing the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, and breaking the erstwhile State into two Union Territories (UTs), the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) leaders and former Chief Ministers, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, have broken their ...

Upset over downgrading of Jammu and Kashmir to the status of a Union Territory following abrogation of Article 370, former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said he will not contest assembly elections till full statehood is restored. However, Omar, a former union minister in ...

Upset over downgrading of Jammu and Kashmir to the status of a Union Territory following abrogation of Article 370, former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said he will not contest assembly elections till full statehood is restored.However, Mr. Abdullah, a former Union Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Monday that he will not contest Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as long as the region remains a Union Territory. “To this day, I fail to understand the need for this move , except to ...

Omar Abdullah said that he will not contest Assembly elections until the government restores Jammu and Kashmir’s full statehood.Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday declared that his party, National Conference, will continue to oppose the Modi government’s August 5, 2019 decision to scrap the status ...

On August 5, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) fulfilled its poll promise and abrogated Article 370 which granted special status to Jammu & Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories – J&K (with legislature) and Ladakh (without legislature).To mark the first anniversary of ...

Omar Abdullah was freed after nearly eight months of detention in Srinagar on March 24.New Delhi: While Jammu and Kashmir remains a Union Territory, I will not be contesting any assembly elections, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has written in a stinging piece in The Indian Express as the ...

For the first time since the momentous constitutional changes in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on August 5 last year, former chief minister of the erstwhile state, and National Conference (NC) leader, Omar Abdullah, who was detained for eight months, has spoken out. Writing in The Indian Express, he expressed ...

SRINAGAR: Omar Abdullah on Monday reacted angrily to Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel's comments apparently linking the former Jammu and Kashmir CM's release from nearly nine months of detention to the revolt by Sachin Pilot against the Congress government in Rajasthan. Taking to Twitter to express his anger, Abdullah, ...