Big win for National Conference, shrunken Congress rides on its shoulders

Of the 49 seats won by the combine, 42 were won by the NC (the enactment had won 15 seats successful 2014). The Congress got conscionable six seats, compared to 12 successful 2014. It got conscionable 1 spot successful Jammu, successful its worst-ever show successful the province.

While the BJP did not triumph a azygous spot successful the Valley, wherever it contested 19 constituencies, its wide tally roseate from 25 successful 2014 to 29.

In the NC’s expanse of 35 of 47 seats successful the Kashmir province, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was decimated, falling to 3 constituencies and its lowest tally ever.

The smaller parties and Independents, connected which galore eyes were trained owed to the buzz that they had been propped up by the BJP, excessively failed to marque a people and could unafraid lone 2 seats successful the Valley. These Independents included candidates enactment up by the Jamaat-e-Islami and Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party (AIP).

The biggest situation for the caller authorities is apt to beryllium however to springiness practice to the Hindu-dominated mainland Jammu, wherever the harvester won nary seat. The 8 seats the 2 parties won successful the Jammu state each autumn successful its hilly areas, including the Congress 1 and the NC seven.

In the NC-Congress-CPI(M) combined tally of 49, determination are lone 2 Hindu faces, some NC candidates. Of the BJP’s 29 seats, 28 are Hindus portion 1 is simply a Sikh, with nary of its Muslim candidates, including 2 erstwhile ministers, winning.

Overall, portion the NC contested 40 seats successful the Valley and won 35, it fought 16 successful Jammu and won seven. The Congress grounds was six of 9 seats successful the Valley, and conscionable 1 of 28 successful Jammu, underlining that the NC did the dense lifting for the alliance. These seats see the 5 successful which the 2 parties fought successful affable contests, of which the NC won 1 portion the BJP won the different four.

“The radical person fixed their verdict,” NC president Farooq Abdullah said. “They person proved that the steps taken connected August 5 (abrogation of Article 370) are not acceptable to the people.”

NC vice-president Omar Abdullah said: “Perhaps, the radical bestowed america with much votes than we besides expected… In the past 5 years, efforts were made to decimate us. Lots of parties were created whose sole nonsubjective was to decimate us. But, by the grace of God, the parties which came into the tract against us, determination is nary hint of them.”

The PDP’s three-seat tally included 2 successful its bastion of South Kashmir. In the past 3 elections, the enactment had won 10, 12 and 11 seats from South Kashmir successful 2002, 2008 and 2014 elections, respectively.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti conceded decision saying radical “voted wisely arsenic they wanted a unchangeable government”.

The predetermination results person enactment a question people connected the aboriginal of smaller governmental parties and Independent candidates, tagged arsenic the “BJP proxies” by their governmental opponents. Of the 215 Independent candidates, lone 2 – Sheikh Khurshid, the member of Engineer Rashid from Langate, and NC rebel Shabir Ahmad Kullay from Shopian – won.

Khurshid, who secured a constrictive win, was the lone 1 of the 36 candidates fielded by Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) to win. The Apni Party failed to unfastened its account, with its president Altaf Bukhari excessively losing. Sajad Lone, the president of the Peoples Conference, could hardly clasp his Handwara seat, winning by astir 700 votes, and mislaid from Kupwara, wherever helium stood 3rd down the PDP’s Fayaz Ahmad Mir and the NC’s Nasir Aslam.

The candidates backed by the banned Jamaat-e-Islami excessively failed. The lone 1 who made a people was Kulgam campaigner Sayar Ahmad Reshi, who stood 2nd down Communist person M Y Tarigami.

“We couldn’t motivate our cadre, we failed to physique assurance successful them,” the Jamaat panel’s main predetermination in-charge Shameem Ahmad Thoker said. “The prohibition connected our organisation besides didn’t assistance arsenic we couldn’t run freely.”