After his party wipeout in J&K, Ghulam Nabi Azad stares at political dead end

Azad’s party, which contested 23 seats retired of 90 successful the Assembly polls, could not marque immoderate impact, failing to unfastened its account. Five DPAP candidates secured little votes than NOTA successful their constituencies, with the enactment getting implicit 10% votes successful lone 3 seats.

In the Lok Sabha elections, the DPAP had contested from Anantnag-Rajouri and Udhampur-Doda, but its nominees mislaid their information deposits from some the seats.

Soon aft its inception, Azad’s enactment has faced a dependable exodus of leaders. Although respective salient Congress faces had initially joined the DPAP, they deserted Azad, 1 aft another.

Weeks earlier the Assembly polls, Azad abruptly announced that helium was “unwell” and that helium whitethorn not run for his candidates. This threw his party’s run retired of gear, portion prompting a fewer of its candidates to adjacent retreat their candidature from the archetypal signifier of polls held connected September 18.

In 23 seats that the DPAP contested, its mean ballot stock stood astatine 5.34%, registering 14.92 % successful Hazratbal, its highest, followed by 13.74 % successful Doda and 10.95 % successful Gurez. The enactment recorded its lowest ballot stock of 0.27% successful RS Pura-Jammu South and 0.28% successful Jammu North.

The 5 seats wherever the enactment polled little votes than NOTA see R S Pura-Jammu South, Ramnagar, Bahu, Jammu North and Doda West.

In Doda West, the DPAP got 436 votes portion NOTA got 998. The enactment polled 237 votes successful RS Pura wherever NOTA got 432. In Ramnagar, the enactment secured 463 votes whereas NOTA polled 1,167.

The DPAP garnered 362 votes successful Bahu wherever NOTA polled 460. In Jammu North, the enactment got 204 votes portion NOTA received 319.

Azad’s champion anticipation successful these polls was that immoderate of his enactment candidates would triumph immoderate seats truthful that it could springiness him a leverage successful the post-poll scenario.

Struggling to support his enactment afloat, Azad, whose governmental vocation seems to beryllium astatine its fag end, has besides reeled from the “BJP proxy” tag utilized by his critics successful J&K.

Talking to The Indian Express during his campaigning past month, Azad had predicted a hung Assembly, arguing that nary enactment oregon confederation would get a majority. In the last analysis, the polls were nevertheless clinched by the National Conference-Congress alliance.