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National Conference's Omar Abdullah takes oath as J&K CM
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--National Conference's Omar Abdullah takes oath as J&K CM
NEW DELHI – National Conference Vice-President Omar Abdullah Wednesday took oath as the first chief minister of the Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. In a ceremony at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre in Srinagar, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha administered him the oath of office and secrecy. Along with Abdullah, five ministers - Surinder Choudhary, Sakina Itoo, Javed Ahmed Rana, Javed Ahmed Dar, and Satish Sharma – also took oath. Surinder Choudhary took oath as deputy chief minister of the Union territory.
The Congress party, which contested the polls in alliance with the National Conference and won six seats, declined to be part of the government.
The oath-taking ceremony was attended by National Conference President and former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir Farooq Abdullah, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, the Aam Aadmi Party's Sanjay Singh, Communist Party of India's D. Raja, and Peoples Democratic Party Chief Mehbooba Mufti. Several other leaders of the opposition bloc also attended the ceremony.
In the recently held three-phase election, the alliance of the National Conference, the Congress, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) secured a majority in the 90-member Jammu & Kashmir assembly, winning 49 seats. On Friday, Omar Abdullah met Sinha at the Raj Bhawan and staked claim to form the government. He also handed over letters of support from a total of 55 newly elected legislators. Omar Abdullah had served as chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir from 2009 to 2015.
On Monday, Sinha invited Abdullah to form and lead the government of the Union territory, after receiving a letter from National Conference President Farooq Abdullah stating that Omar Abdullah had been unanimously elected leader of the party's legislature wing. "I have also received a letter from Tariq Hameed Karra, president, J&K Pradesh Congress Committee, G.N. Malik, secretary, CPI(M), Shri Pankaj Kumar Gupta, national secretary, Aam Aadmi Party, and independent MLAs, namely Payare Lal Sharma, Satish Sharma, Ch. Mohd. Akram, Dr. Rameshwar Singh and Muzafar Iqbal Khan, offering support in the formation of government led by you," Sinha said in a letter.
On Sunday, the Centre issued a notification revoking President's rule in Jammu & Kashmir. "In exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019 (34 of 2019) read with Articles 239 and 239A of the Constitution of India, the order dated the 31st October 2019 in relation to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall stand revoked immediately before the appointment of the chief minister under section 54 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019," the notification stated. End
Reported by Kuldeep Singh
Edited by Avishek Dutta
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