The Diplomat Desk
Jammu,TDD,With massive victory on 42 seats National Conference emerged as single largest party in Jammu and Kashmir while BJP clean sweep on seats of Dogra heart- land cinching 29 seats out of 43 from Jammu division.
National Conference won total 42 seats of which 35 won from Kashmir region and seven from Jammu region, which includes two each from Banihal, Rajouri and Poonch while one seat from Reasi district. Similarly Congress total six seats and just one from Rajouri district. The National Conference and Congress party’s per-poll alliance comfortable touched the magical number with 48 seats in which Congress party’s contribution of six seats, mainly from Kahsmir and just one seat from Jammu’s Rajouri district.
Moreover, Bharatiya Janata Party won 29 seats in its best every performance so far and overcome its 2014 result where party won 25 seats. Of this 29, BJP’s main stake remained in Jammu division while it failed to win any seat in Kashmir. BJP won ten out of eleven seats in Jammu district, clean sweep Udhampur, Samba while claiming all four and three seats in the the districts respectively. BJP won five out of six seats in Kathua, two each from Kishtwar, Doda and Reasi districts. However, it failed to open account in Kashmir and Rajouri, Ramban and Poonch districts.
Former Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has won from the Budgam seat and Ganderbal seat. BJP’s Shagun Parihar recoded biggest upset by defeating National Conference stalwart and former Minister Sajad Ahmed Kichloo with a margin of less than 600 votes in Kishtwar constituency. Mehraj Malik of Aam Aadmi Party emerged victorious from Doda segment, he defeated Former Minster and NC’s candidate Khalid Najib Suharwardy and former minister and DPAP candidate Abdul Majid Wani.
Satish Sharma, son of late Congress leader and member Parliament Mandal Lal, won from Chaamb constituency. He defeated former deputy chief minister Tara Chand of Congress and BJP’s Rajeev Sharma.
Several veteran Congress leaders including two time Member Parliament and former Minister Choudhary Lal Singh was defeated by BJP candidate Darshan Kumar in his traditional stronghold of the Basholi seat in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district.
Congress party former president Vaqir Rasool Wani lost from Banihal, two working presidents and Former Ministers Raman Bhalla and Tara Chand also lost elections from R S Pura-Jammu South and Chaamb constituencies respectively, while venerate Congress leaders and former Minister Manohar Lal Sharma lost from Billiwar, Yogesh Sahwaney lost from Jammu East.
Polling for 90 constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir was held in three phases on 18th and 25th of September and 1st of this month.TDD
