It’s a wrap: The big winners and losers in Kashmir

Tariq Hameed Karra: The Pradesh Congress Committee president won from the Central Shalteng spot successful Srinagar, wherever helium was up against nationalist Conference rebel Mohammad Irfan Shah, who contested arsenic an Independent candidate. Karra secured 18,933 votes arsenic against Shah’s 4,538 votes.

Waheed Parra: The PDP younker president was 1 of conscionable 3 candidates from the enactment to triumph Tuesday. Parra defeated National Conference campaigner and erstwhile enactment workfellow Mohammad Khalil Bandh by implicit 8,000 votes successful Pulwama. Bandh had won the Pulwama spot for 3 consecutive presumption successful 2002, 2008 and 2014.

Ghulam Ahmad Mir: The erstwhile Pradesh Congress Committee main won by the largest borderline successful the Valley. He defeated PDP’s Mohammad Ashraf Malik by adjacent to 30,000 votes from the Dooru Assembly segment.

M Y Tarigami: A associated campaigner of the confederation including NC and Congress, the Communist person secured his 5th consecutive triumph from Kulgam Assembly constituency. Tarigami defeated Jamaat-e-Islami backed Independent campaigner Sayar Ahmad Reshi by astir 8,000 votes.

Javid Reyaz Bedar: The erstwhile constabulary serviceman defeated salient Shia cleric and People’s Conference person Imran Reza Ansari by 600 votes. Bedar’s triumph is important arsenic helium dislodged Ansari from his household bastion. Imran Reza Ansari and his begetter Iftikhar Hussain Ansari had won the spot for 5 presumption successful the past.

Farooq Ahmad Shah: A bureaucrat-turned-politician, Shah defeated elder person Ghulam Hassan Mir from the Gulmarg Assembly spot by implicit 4,000 votes. A debutant, Shah was fielded by the National Conference against Apni Party stalwart Mir and came retired apical aft a stiff contest.

Big losers

Iltija Mufti: The girl of erstwhile main curate and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, Iltija mislaid to the National Conference’s Bashir Ahmad Veeri from the Bijbehara constituency – a household bastion of the Muftis. While Veeri won implicit 32,000 votes, Iltija could negociate lone astir 23,000.

Sajad Lone: The People’s Conference president won from Handwara constituency, but helium mislaid successful Kupwara to PDP’s Fayaz Ahmad Mir. Lone stood 3rd down Mir and NC’s Nasir Aslam Wani. Mir secured implicit 27,000 votes and Wani got implicit 17,000 votes, but Lone won little than 8,000 votes.

Altaf Bukhari: The Apni Party president mislaid to National Conference’s Mushtaq Ahmad Guroo by implicit 5,500 votes from Srinagar’s Channapora – an Assembly conception that helium had won successful 2014. Bukhari was 1 of the 2 Apni Party candidates wide expected to triumph this time, but contempt assertive campaigning, helium and his enactment failed to marque a mark.

Sartaj Madni: The uncle of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, Madni mislaid to National Conference’s Peerzada Feroze Ahmad by a adjacent borderline from the Devsar Assembly conception successful southbound Kashmir’s Kulgam. Madni secured 17,390 votes portion his rival got 18,230.

Junaid Mattu: The erstwhile politician of Srinagar mislaid to National Conference’s Tanvir Sadiq by implicit 16,000 votes. Sadiq secured 22,189 votes arsenic opposed to the conscionable 2,700 received by Mattu, who was contesting arsenic an Independent candidate.

Abdul Rehman Veeri: The elder PDP leader, who earlier represented the Bijbehara seat, was moved to Anantnag East by the enactment this time. There, helium mislaid to NC’s Reyaz Ahmad Khan by implicit 14,000 votes.