OMAR ABDULLAH (FILE)
SRINAGAR: Omar Abdullah is taking oath as the puppet chief minister of occupied Jammu and Kashmir after the recent local government elections.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Pryanka Gandhi have also been invited to the oath taking function in Srinagar.
In the recent elections, the Congress and National Conference bagged 53 of the 90 seats in the assembly of occupied Kashmir while the BJP of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lagged far behind with 29 seats.
According to reports, in the house of 90 seats the Congress and its allied parties need 46 seats and they have already won 49 and are in a comfortable position to form a local government.
The third and final phase of the LG polls in Kashmir was held in occupied Kashmir on Oct 1.
The occupation regime claimed that the turnout in the first and second phase of the local government elections remained over 55%.
Political observers said that due to the fear of law and order situation and deployment of hundreds of thousands of military and paramilitary troops, the people of occupied Kashmir did not take any interest in the elections.
Over half a million Indian troops are already deployed in the occupied territory who keep a visual eye on the residents and routinely carry out search and pumping operations.
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