Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday vacated the Budgam assembly seat, one of the two seats from where he was elected. He has retained the Ganderbal constituency, PTI reported. Jammu and Kashmir pro-tem speaker Mubarak Gul announced in the House.  Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah. Omar Abdullah, 54, won the Budgam seat in the recently concluded Jammu and Kashmir elections. He defeated People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi by 18,485 votes.  The National Conference vice president also won from Ganderbal, an Abdullah family stronghold. He defeated PDP’s Bashir Ahmed Mir by 10,574 votes.  Omar Abdullah was an MLA from Ganderbal from 2009 to 2014 during his first stint as chief minister. This constituency has been represented by his father Farooq Abdullah and grandfather Sheikh Abdullah, who founded the NC.  With Abdullah vacating Budgam, the strength of the National Conference in the 95-member house has been reduced to 41 but the party still enjoys a comfortable majority with the support of six Congress MLA, five Independents and one …