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Budgam gears up for crucial By-Election,litmus test for Omar Abdullah’s NC

Majid Jahangir
Srinagar, Nov 10 (UNI) Budgam is all set for a crucial by-election tomorrow — a contest viewed as a litmus test for the ruling National Conference (NC) and its popularity among the electorate after last year’s Assembly polls.
The bypoll was necessitated after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who had won both the Budgam and Ganderbal seats in last year’s Assembly elections, vacated Budgam, choosing to retain Ganderbal. Omar had won Budgam with 35,804 votes, defeating the PDP’s Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi, who secured 17,445 votes.
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