Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday returned a highly-fractured verdict in which the PDP emerged the single largest party throwing up different possibilities in government formation while the BJP stormed to power with an ally in Jharkhand giving it the first stable government
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will submit his resignation today when he will make a customary call on state Governor NN Vohra. My bio (biodata) will change once I’ve called on the Governor tomorrow, he tweeted yesterday
The Chief Minister, whose party National Conference won 17 seats, including two independents from Zanskar and Udhampur supported by his party, gave the indication about his resignation on microblogging site Twitter.
The 44-year-old Omar recalled his previous election and said that he was very nervous a day before counting in 2008. 6 years ago I was nervous as hell the night before counting, this time I’m strangely calm. What will be will be & I’ll be a happy person,” he said.
In Jammu and Kashmir, where polling was held for 87 seats, the turnout was the highest after 1987 despite boycott calls by separatists and militants.
Jharkhand, which has been battling Maoist violence, registered an overall 66 per cent turnout for the 81 assembly seats. The state, which was carved out of Bihar in 2000, bettered the previous mark of 54.2 per cent in the 2004 Assembly polls.
Omar Abdullah lost from Sonawar Assembly seat of Srinagar district and has won Beerwah Assembly by a margin of over 1000 seats. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s National Conference won only 17 seats
Bureau Report
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