Omar Abdullah resigns as J-K CM

A day after the assembly elections in the state threw a hung verdict, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday resigned as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

"Bio changed :-)," he tweeted.

Taking a jibe at the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Omar earlier in the day said the expectations were so hyped and twisted in the Jammu and Kashmir elections that although his party lost after winning 17 seats, it felt like a victory.

"NC has 15 + 2 and we are very pleased, PDP has 28 and Mufti Sb hasn't been seen, much less heard. Clearly the more you have the more you want,"

Omar tweeted.

"Expectations were hyped and twisted to such an extent that now 17 feels like a victory and 28 a defeat. Go figure!" he added in his tweet.

Omar, who lost from Sonawar seat but managed to cling on to Beerwah with a slender margin of 1,000 votes, also took his party's failure sportingly.

"Incidentally, in 2002, Mufti became CM with 16 MLAs and NC with 28 sat in opposition so excuse me if I don't oblige by rolling over to play dead. 6 years ago I drove in stake my claim to form a government in J-K, now I'm driving in to resign. The wheel comes full circle," he tweeted.

On Tuesday, Jammu and Kashmir gave a highly-fractured verdict in which the PDP emerged the single largest party throwing up different possibilities in government formation.

The ruling National Conference suffered a defeat when it secured only 15 seats against 28 it had won in the last elections. Its partner in the government Congress slipped to the fourth position getting only 12 seats.