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BJP won’t have courage to hold J-K polls after Congress win in Karnataka: Omar Abdullah

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Omar Abdullah while speaking during a party function in Pulwama
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SRINAGAR — As the Congress is headed for a thumping win in Karnataka, National Conference vice-president and former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah took a swipe at the BJP over holding of elections in the Union Territory.

In a tweet, as per the news agency KNO, Omar Abdullah said that BJP won’t have the courage to allow assembly elections to take place in Jammu and Kashmir.

“Now there is no way BJP will have the courage to allow assembly elections to take place in J&K any time soon,” he tweeted.

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