Baramulla: Omar Abdulla Trails By 61619 Votes
Former Chief Minister of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and current, National Conference (NC) vice-president, Omar Abdullah trails in Baramulla. As per the recent reports, Abullah is trailing by nearly 61619 votes against his close rival and independent candidate Sheikh Abdul Rashid (Engineer Rashid).
Baramulla is witnessing a triangular contest between PC’s Sajad Gani Lone, PDP’s Fayaz Ahmad Mir and independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh.
The Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency covers 18 Assembly segments and spread across four districts, Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipora (north Kashmir), and Budgam (central Kashmir). Since 1971, NC has won the constituency nine times, the Congress twice, and the PDP once.
The Abdullahs always contested from Srinagar constituency, advancing their party National Conference”s (NC) hold in Central Kashmir. In the first polls in Jammu and Kashmir after reading down of Article 370, Omar Abdullah chose Baramulla over their family bastion, Srinagar.
In 2019, Omar Abdullah, his father along with many other political leaders were place under house arrest following abrogation of Article 370 and state got split into two Union Territories. In February 2020, he was charged with the Public Safety Act (PSA) and later revoked the detention orders in late March.
