PM Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh send birthday greetings to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah. PM Modi wished CM Omar a healthy and long life on social media platform X. CM Omar was born to Dr Farooq Abdullah and his British mother, Mollie Abdullah on March 10, 1970 in Rockford, Essex in England. He did his initial schooling in Burn Hall School in Srinagar city run by missionaries. He received a business-related bachelor’s degree from a college affiliated with the University of Mumbai and did some graduate coursework in business administration at a university in Scotland. His political career at the state level started badly. In the 2002 elections, the ruling NC lost more than half of the 57 Assembly seats it had garnered in 1996. Omar bounced back with a double victory from Ganderbal and Budgam Assembly constituencies in the legislative Assembly elections last year. He was sworn in as the CM of J&K for the second time on October 16, 2024, but by then the state had been bifurcated into the two UTs of Ladakh and J &K.