Jammu and Kashmir elections: Omar Abdullah files nomination from Ganderbal, hopes for big win from family stronghold

Nationwide Convention (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from Ganderbal meeting seat. Abdullah, accompanied by senior celebration leaders and his sons, filed his nomination papers earlier than the returning officer on the mini secretariat in Ganderbal. After submitting his nomination, Omar Abdullah mentioned, “I have filed my nomination from Ganderbal. Let's not talk about who is contesting from where. The people of Ganderbal have elected me as a member of parliament thrice and once as an MLA. I left my seat for Ishfaq Jabbar only because I promised him to do so and then he became an MLA, but he betrayed the people of Ganderbal. Today, we are going to contest the election for the development of Ganderbal.”

Earlier, Omar Abdullah reached the Mini Secretariat after doing a street present with an enormous crowd of his supporters. Abdullah represented this seat from 2009 to 2014. He contested the 2014 meeting elections from Beerwah meeting seat in Budgam district of central Kashmir and gained. Abdullah additionally contested from Sonwar seat in Srinagar, however there he was defeated by the then chief of People's Democratic Party (PDP) Mohammad Ashraf Mir.

Ganderbal has been the stronghold of the Nationwide Convention and the Abdullah household. Nationwide Convention founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and present president Farooq Abdullah have represented this constituency a number of instances. In such a state of affairs, Omar Abdullah's victory from Ganderbal is taken into account simple.

Omar Abdullah contested the Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla seat in north Kashmir however misplaced to Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid. Rashid is lodged in Tihar jail on expenses of funding terrorism. Voting for the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir meeting will probably be held on September 18, 25 and October 1.