J&K DDC Polls: Apni Party Emerges as Essential Lynchpin in Admin-Aided Horse Trading
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Altaf Bukhari with two DDC polls candidates who joined J&K Apni Party in Shopian. Photo: Twitter/@Apnipartyonline
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Srinagar: With a winning Congress candidate hitching her wagon to the Altaf Bukhari-led Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP), Shopian is likely to become the second district, after Srinagar, where the Peopleâs Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a grouping of seven regional parties committed to the restoration of Article 370, will not be in control of the newly elected development council.
277 Jammu and Kashmir DDC members take oath
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Arrested Parra’s online oath ‘not allowed’
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Arrested Parra’s online oath ‘not allowed’
Around 277 elected District Development Council (DDC) representatives were administered oath in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. However, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, who is in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody and had sought a court order for online oath, could not do so “due to procedural issues”.
An official said that out of 280 members, 137 in the Kashmir division and 140 in the Jammu division “were administered oath in their respective districts”.
After an oath ceremony in Srinagar, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, P.K. Pole, said the completion of three-tier Panchayati Raj System had realised the dream of Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Gram Swaraj’.
After DDC victories, head of Gupkar alliance presses for restoration of 4G services
Dr. Farooq Abdullah, who heads the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), on Thursday chaired a meeting of the grouping’s constituents in Srinagar and asked J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to release recently detained senior leaders “if the government wants democracy to survive in J&K”.
Dr. Abdullah, who discussed the results of the District Development Council (DDC) polls with the alliance partners, said, “If the L-G administration and Centre wants democracy to survive in J&K, all those detained recently should be released immediately”.
Highlights
The BJP emerged as the single largest party as it won 73 seats including three in the Kashmir Valley for the first time.
The PAGD bagged over 100 seats
Forty-seven Independents, mainly disgruntled leaders from all political parties, were declared winners and six more were leading in other seats.
Srinagar/Jammu: The seven-party People s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) led by Farooq Abdullah has won over seats in the maiden District Development Council polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
Till the last reports came, the PAGD had won or was leading in 112 seats out of 280, followed by the BJP which emerged as the single largest party as it won 75 seats including three in the Kashmir Valley for the first time.
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Jammu and Kashmir DDC polls: Gupkar bags over 100 seats, BJP emerges as single largest party with 73 seats
The People s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) swept the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls by winning 110 seats, while the BJP emerged as the single largest party by getting 74 seats after securing the largest vote share in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.
The results of four constituencies â one each in Bandipora and Kupwara districts of north Kashmir and Poonch and Rajouri districts in Jammu region â are still awaited.
The counting of votes for the 280 DDC constituencies â 14 each in 20 districts â started Tuesday morning after the peaceful culmination of the eight-phase election from November 28 to December 19. This was the first democratic exercise in Jammu and Kashmir post abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two unio