However, the US Federal election commission dismissed the complaint in January 2022, reports The Independent. MynettвЂ™s former wife Dr Beth Mynett had accused the politician of вЂњstealing her husbandвЂќ.Д¬ampaign finance records revealed that the politician paid more than $369,000 to E Street between August 2018 and September 2019. The think tank accused the Minnesota Democrat of illegally using campaign funds to pay for personal travel expenses for Tim Mynett, who runs the political consulting firm E Street Group, which was hired to work on OmarвЂ™s campaign. Ilhan Omar during a campaign with her husband Tim Mynett at the Richfield Farmers Market in Richfield, Minnesota. Back in 2019, National Legal & Policy Centre, a right-wing think thank alleged that she used campaign funds to finance her affair with a political consultant she later married. Omar has faced allegations of campaign finance violations in Minnesota. We take a look at the many controversies of Ilhan Omar. While she has her fair share of admirers, thereвЂ™s no dearth of critics, including former president Donald Trump. The mother of three, who was 37 then, became the first Somali-American, first African-born American, and one of the first two Muslim American women to serve in the US Congress.

The Somali-American politician who belongs to US president Joe BidenвЂ™s democratic party made history when she won MinnesotaвЂ™s fifth congressional district in November 2018. Omar has often riled up India in the past but even in her own country, she remains a controversial figure. ItвЂ™s an unofficial personal visit and it does not represent any policy change on behalf of the US govt: Derek Chollet, Counselor to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's POK visit and meeting with former Pakistan PM Imran Khan This visit is condemnable,вЂќ said Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. But violating our territorial integrity and sovereignty in its pursuit makes it ours. If such a politician wishes to practice her narrow-minded politics at home, that may be her business. вЂњWe have noted that US Representative Ilhan Omar has visited a part of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir that is currently illegally occupied by Pakistan. India has said that her вЂњnarrow-minded politicsвЂќ violated its вЂњterritorial integrity and sovereigntyвЂќ.

Omar is on a four-day visit to the neigbouring nation from 20 April to 24 April, where she met PakistanвЂ™s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the former premier Imran Khan, and also visited Muzaffarabad in PoK. Now Omar, who is known for her anti-India views, has ruffled feathers in New Delhi once again by visiting Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (Pok). вЂњI am only controversial because people want controversy,вЂќ United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar famously said in 2019.

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