Srinagar, Oct 24: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah held last-minute discussions for Friday’s Rajya Sabha polls with his party leaders, the strategy mostly focussing on securing the all-important votes from independent MLAs. To keep them going, they had a regular supply of ‘pakoras’ and ‘chai’, he said.

National Conference (NC) and alliance members visited the chief minister’s office in the assembly complex here as NC leaders worked out the arithmetic for the polls in four Upper House seats in Jammu and Kashmir, voting for which is ongoing.

Amid all the serious strategising and deliberations, the chief minister put out pictures of his office on social media platform X.

“Behind the scenes in my office in the assembly complex while we work out the arithmetic and strategy of the Rajya Sabha pol

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