Lone accuses NC of gifting 7 votes to BJP to win RS seat from J&K
The NC won three seats, while the BJP managed one in the first Rajya Sabha elections held yesterday in J&K after it became a Union territory in 2019.
The NC won three seats, while the BJP managed one in the first Rajya Sabha elections held yesterday in J&K after it became a Union territory in 2019.
He said that the BJP has always placed the nation’s unity, integrity, and the welfare of common citizens as its top priority, and today’s victory reaffirms that very policy.
Rejecting allegations of cross-voting by the ruling National Conference (NC) MLAs in the polling for four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister and NC vice-president Omar Abdullah on Friday said that the party’s votes had remained intact and questioned where the four extra votes for BJP president Sat Sharma came from.
BJP had fielded its candidates on three of the four seats but only Sat Sharma won, while the two other candidates Rakesh Mahajan and Ali Mohammad Mir lost the election.
Announcing the decision in Srinagar, the J&K UT Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra said, “We have pushed all our differences with the NC to the backburner to prove our commitment to our ethos.”
Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said the decision was taken “to safeguard Jammu and Kashmir’s rights and to keep the BJP at bay.”
In an official statement, the BJP said that the party’s Central Election Committee approved the name of Kanad Purkayastha for the election.
The nominations for the biennial elections to two Rajya Sabha seats from the state will be held on March 11, and the elections are set to be held on March 21. The counting of votes will be done on the same day.
State Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu accused the BJP of kidnapping around six Congress MLAs.
There are, in total, 11 candidates in the fray, including eight from the BJP and three from the SP.
