Large Lead For Gupkar Alliance, BJP Single Largest Occasion In J&Okay Native Polls
Srinagar/Jammu:
The seven-party Gupkar alliance led by Farooq Abdullah was forward within the seat tally within the maiden District Improvement Council polls in Jammu and Kashmir by profitable or main in 112 seats out of 280 on Tuesday, adopted by the BJP which emerged as the one largest celebration because it gained 73 seats together with three within the Kashmir valley for the primary time.
The Individuals’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) has bagged 100 seats and was main in 12 others, in keeping with knowledge from the union territory’s election fee.
Forty-seven Independents, primarily disgruntled leaders from all political events, have been declared winners and 6 extra have been main in different seats.
The Jammu and Kashmir Apni Occasion (JKAP) put up a dismal efficiency by bagging 11 seats and main in one other seat. The Congress thus far gained 22 seats and was main in 5 different council seats.
The eight-phase DDC polls, which started on November 28, are the primary election after Jammu and Kashmir’ particular standing below Article 370 was revoked final 12 months and it was reorganised right into a Union Territory. Within the election, 140 seats every within the Jammu and Kashmir areas went to polls.
The developments in most seats within the DDC elections have been in accordance with expectations — the BJP maintained its power within the Jammu division whereas the PAGD, which incorporates regional heavyweights the Nationwide Convention (NC) and the Individuals’s Democratic Occasion (PDP), was forward in Kashmir, moreover Pir Panchal and the Chenab Valley areas of Jammu.
A day forward of counting of votes, authorities had detained a number of PDP and second-rung NC leaders, together with Naeem Akhtar, Sartaj Madni, Peer Mansoor and Hilal Ahmad Lone. No purpose was given for the detentions.
Senior PDP chief Waheed Parra, who’s at current in jail after the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) arrested him in a terror funding case, gained from Pulwama-1 and polled 1,323 votes towards BJP’s Sajjad Ahmed Raina who polled solely 321 votes.
The BJP had one thing to cheer about within the Kashmir valley as three of its candidates — Aijaz Hussain, Aijaz Ahmad Khan and Minha Lateef — gained from Khonmoh-II seat in Srinagar, Tulail seat in Bandipora district and Kakpora in Pulwama respectively.
That is for the primary time the BJP has registered a win within the Valley whereas dealing with regional heavyweights just like the NC and the PDP.
Highlighting the wins in Kashmir area, BJP common secretary Vibodh Gupta congratulated the victorious celebration candidates, particularly those that had gained in Kashmir, and stated the folks of the Valley have exhibited their religion within the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The folks of Kashmir exhibited their religion in Hon”ble PM Narendra Modi”s imaginative and prescient of Naya Kashmir, and sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas,” Gupta, who can also be the celebration”s in-charge for Kashmir, stated.
He stated the victories marked a “change of wave” within the Valley and added that the maiden victory in Kashmir “speaks of two tales — considered one of a troublesome battle by the BJP, marking the start of a brand new period within the Valley, and the opposite of conveying a robust message to Gupkar Gang that the tip of their communal and divisive politics is close to.”
Senior BJP chief and Union minister Jitendra Singh stated, “Three BJP candidates have gained from Srinagar. It’s testimony to the truth that folks of Jammu and Kashmir consider in Prime Minister Narendra Modi”s imaginative and prescient for the event of the Union Territory”.
Nevertheless, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and NC vice chairman Omar Abdullah stated the outcomes of the DDC elections have made it clear that the folks of Jammu and Kashmir have voted for the Gupkar alliance and rejected the Centre”s choice to abrogate Article 370.
Abdullah was fast sufficient to counter the BJP”s claims, tweeting, “I perceive the temptation to over play the three seats the BJP has gained within the valley however why underplay the 35 wins/leads of the @JKPAGD in Jammu province”.
“We aren”t Kashmir based mostly events, we’re political events with sturdy help in each Kashmir AND Jammu,” the NC chief tweeted.
Abdullah instructed PTI that the outcomes and rising developments of the DDC polls needs to be an “eye-opener” for the BJP and its “proxy political celebration”. He was apparently referring the JKAP.
The PDP President stated, “Right now”s DDC outcomes have made it clear that folks of J&Okay voted en masse for @JKPAGD thus rejecting the unconstitutional choice to abrogate Article 370. They’ve overwhelmingly supported @JKPAGD which stands for restoration of J&Ks particular standing”.
Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram stated the DDC election outcomes present that the voters of the Kashmir valley have firmly rejected the BJP and its “misguided” Kashmir coverage.
“Undeterred by the denial of democratic rights, the voters of the Kashmir valley have firmly rejected the BJP and its misguided Kashmir coverage. I praise the voters for his or her braveness and resolve,” he stated on Twitter.
Chidambaram additionally tweeted, “Even within the Jammu area, a big variety of voters have rejected the divisive and polarising politics of the BJP”.
The BJP”s former minister Shakti Raj Parihar was trailing from each his seats in Doda district, whereas former ministers Aijaz Khan (JKAP) and Abdul Gani Malik (NC) emerged victorious from Thuroo constituency and Mahore constituency in Reasi district.
Among the many distinguished losers from Kashmir have been Naseer Ahmad Mir, son of state Congress chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir. He misplaced to impartial candidate Peer Shahbaz Ahmad.
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