“Omar Abdullah is going to take over as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in the next few days. I congratulate him for being the chief minister of the INDIA alliance. We will fully support him in running a successful government and hope Jammu and Kashmir treads the path of development under his leadership,” Kejriwal.
“Delhi is called a half-state because the Chief Minister had limited powers. Now, they (BJP) have also turned J&K into a half-state which means an elected government has minimum powers, whereas the Lieutenant Governor has more powers. I want to tell Omar that if he faces any hardship in his work, consult me because I have run the government in Delhi for 10 years,” added the former Delhi Chief Minister.
Malik defeated BJP’s Ganjay Singh Rana by over 4,538 votes besides former ministers Khalid Najib Suharwardy of the National Conference (NC) and Abdul Majid Wani of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party from the Doda assembly segment to become the first member of the AAP to register a win in Jammu and Kashmir.
