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| Omar on Umrah with Srinagar scribes | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 17: In the thick of campaigning for the ruling coalition candidates in the current Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today left for his second Umrah in a year. He has also taken along with him editor of a leading English daily in Srinagar as well as the Srinagar Bureau Chief of a premier satellite news channel.
Even as some leaders of an Opposition party were reportedly planning to project it as a violation of the Model Code of Conduct, Omar Abdullah and his close aide, Nasir Sogami, left for New Delhi wherefrom they are scheduled to leave for Saudi Arabia on Saturday. NC’s political opponents have begun to make Omar’s spiritual odyssey controversial as, according to them, it was “a PR exercise aimed it ensuring high publicity” during the process of Lok Sabha elections.
Chief Minister, who participated in the NC’s Srinagar-Budgam candidate Dr Farooq Abdullah’s nomination filing ceremony today, is scheduled to return from Saudi Arabia on April 21. Sources said that immediately after his return, Omar Abdullah would launch a programme of aggressive campaigning for his South Kashmir candidate Dr Mehboob Beg. Polling is scheduled to take place in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections in the PDP stronghold of Anantnag-Pulwama on April 30.
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