Gloating over my premature defeat made victory sweeter, tweets Omar Abdullah after Beerwah win

In a major embarrassment to the ruling National Conference party in Jammu and Kashmir, its leader and outgoing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was defeated from the Sonawar Assembly constituency. However, media was left red-faced when Abdullah pointed out that he had won in Beerwah constituency, contrary to what some of the reports suggested.

The former J&K chief minister tweeted out that his victory is even sweeter now after all the gloating by media channels and Twitter over his premature defeat in Beerwah.

Abdullah took a dig at one of the media channels and said:

Dear @IndiaToday please don't be so quick to write my political obituary. Request you check Beerwah result again. Thank you.

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 23, 2014

And how!!!!! Thanks for correcting :-) “@IndiaToday: @abdullah_omar We stand corrected.”

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 23, 2014

Abdullah won in Beerwah assembly seat where he defeated his nearest Congress party rival Nazir Ahmad Khan by a narrow margin. According to PTI, he has defeated Khan by a margin of over 1000 votes.

He then claimed his victory is sweeter now:

Thank you to all of you gloating over my premature defeat in Beerwah, it's made the victory even sweeter :-

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 23, 2014

The former J&K chief minister also congratulated Ashraf Mir and wished him luck for the next 6 years.

Congratulations to Ashraf Mir for his victory in Sonwar. I wish him & the people all good luck for the next 6 years. He's now my local MLA.

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 23, 2014

Abdullah reportedly lost Sonwar constituency by more than 3000 votes. According to a report in Indian Express , Omar secured 7929 votes his rival got 12207, BJP candidate Darakshan Andrabi got 835 votes.