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Omar Abdullah may have lost the confidence of the people of Jammu & Kashmir as chief minister, but political observers are still glued to his Twitter account. The loquacious former CM has continually tweeted on the fluid situation in Srinagar in the run-up to the formation of a state government. Political circles were abuzz with talk that Abdullah's National Conference and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were growing close - but Abdullah went ahead and denied that flatly, on Twitter. Still, that wasn't enough to stop some from mocking what people saw as his U-turn on the BJP.