Ravinder Raina, Nowshera Election Results: Jammu and Kashmir BJP President Ravinder Raina lost against National Conference (NC) candidate Surinder Choudhary by a margin of 7819 votes. Surinder Kumar Choudhary won from the seat with 35069 votes while Raina managed to grab 27250 votes, Election Commission (ECI) data shows.
According to the latest figures from the ECI, the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (JKN) is leading with 41 seats while BJP with 29 seats, Congress with 6 seats. Additionally, Independents are leading with 7 seats.
In the 90-member assembly seats, the Congress is in alliance with National Conference (NC) and contested these elections against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Meanwhile, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), based in the valley, chose to contest independently.
This was the first assembly elections held in Jammu and Kashmir after 10 years and since the revocation of Article 370 of the Constitution in August 2019. According to poll panel data, 63.45 per cent voter turnout was recorded in all three phases. A voter turnout of 61% was registered in the first phase, 57.3% in the second phase of voting and 68.72% in the third phase.
Meanwhile, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, candidate from Dooru constituency has exuded confidence and said that the National Conference and Congress alliance will cross the magic figure of 50. Former JK CM Omar Abdullah said that the alliance was in pole position to win and urged the BJP not to play any dirty tricks.
"We have the hope that we will win. The decision made by the voters of J&K, we will get to know by today afternoon. There should be transparency, if people's mandate is against BJP, they shouldn't pull off any tricks. We did alliance so we can win and we are hoping to win," Omar Abdullah said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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