The counting of votes for the eight-phase District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir began at 9 am Tuesday and is currently underway. Later that day, Srinagar District Election Official Shahid Choudhary said that of the 14 DDC seats in Srinagar, seven were won by independent candidates and three went to the Apni Party. One seat for each, Choudhary said, was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the National Conference (NC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM).
NC and PDP are among the members of the six-party People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD).
“Out of the 14 DDC seats in Srinagar, the independents have won seven seats, the Apni Party emerged victorious with three seats and one seat each by BJP, PDP, National Conference, People’s Movement of Jammu and Kashmir,” the agency quoted ANI news to Choudhary.
BJP’s Ajaz Hussain was among the victorious of the DDC seats in Srinagar, securing the Balhama seat. Speaking to the media, Hussain said: “We fought the PAGD candidate and the BJP came out victorious in this seat today. I congratulate the people of Jammu and Kashmir and the security forces. “
North Carolina candidate Kaiser Mir and independent candidate Shabir Aad Reshi were victorious in the Khimber and Hawan constituencies, respectively.
Voting for the DDC elections took place between November 28 and December 19, with nearly 2,200 candidates in the 280-seat fray. These are the first elections in the Valley after the repeal of Article 370 last August, which led to the removal of the region’s special status and the division of the then unified state of Jammu and Kashmir into independent territories of the Union of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. .
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