The assembly in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the many outcomes of the July 13, 1931 massacre. Recommended by a British officer JB Glancy, the initial assembly, the Parja Sabha had more nominated members from the darbar than the elected ones. The right to vote was restricted to adult males, a candidate had to prove he can read and write before being permitted to contest and the entire seat adjustment was on a communal basis. Right now, a new delimitation process is underway. This write-up by
Prof Gulshan Rai
The Tribune
, then published from Lahore, on February 18, 1939, offers some basic ideas about the pre-partition constitutions, assembly and the delimitation process in Kashmir. This opinion also offers an idea about how the Maharaja was loved by the subcontinentâs English media
July 30, 2021
MUZAFFARABAD: PTI has won the LA-16 Bagh 3 seat of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, whose results were withheld for re-polling on four polling stations, after clashes brought polling to a halt on July 25.
According to unofficial results, after today s polling, PTI candidate Sardar Mir Akbar bagged 23,561 votes, whereas PPP s Sardar Qamaruz Zaman obtained 23,267 votes a difference of a mere 294 votes.
In the polls on July 25, PTI emerged as the largest winner with 25 seats, PPP came in second place with 11, while PML-N won six seats. Now, with this latest victory, PTI will have 26 seats in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
July 30, 2021
MUZAFFARABAD: PTI has won the LA-16 Bagh 3 seat of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, whose results were withheld for re-polling on four polling stations, after clashes brought polling to a halt on July 25.
According to unofficial results, after today’s polling, PTI candidate Sardar Mir Akbar bagged 23,561 votes, whereas PPP’s Sardar Qamaruz Zaman obtained 23,267 votes a difference of a mere 294 votes.
In the polls on July 25, PTI emerged as the largest winner with 25 seats, PPP came in second place with 11, while PML-N won six seats.
Now, with this latest victory, PTI will have 26 seats in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
UK taxi base owner wins Azad Kashmir election on PTI ticket
July 30, 2021
LONDON: A British Kashmiri man from Ayselbury has become a member of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Legislative Assembly (AJK-LA) on a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) ticket after defeating his rival who held the seat for over two decades.
Chaudary Muhammad Ikhlaq joined the PTI around six years ago and gained a ticket for LA-11, Kotli 4, Sehnsa, District Kotli. His rival was Raja Naseer from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) who received 24,288 votes against Chaudary Ikhlaq’s 25,201 votes.
Speaking to The News, Ikhlaq said he was “thankful to the voters of LA-11, Sehnsa Sertawa Panjera, for placing their trust in me and PTI”. Ikhlaq, 58, joined the PTI when Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhary entered the party with his group around six years ago. Prior to that, he was an active campaigner for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Kashmir chapter.
AJK election: PTI wins another seat after re-polling
July 30, 2021
PTI has won the LA-16 Bagh 3 seat of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, whose results were withheld for re-polling on four polling stations, after clashes brought polling to a halt on July 25, a private TV channel reported.
According to unofficial results, after the polling, PTI candidate Sardar Mir Akbar bagged 23,561 votes, whereas PPP’s Sardar Qamaruz Zaman obtained 23,267 votes – a difference of a mere 294 votes. Of the total 939 votes cast by government employees, PTI received 396, whereas PPP got 421.
In the July 25 polling exercise, voting was held in 163 of 167 polling stations, in which the PTI candidate was already in the lead, receiving 22,503 votes, while the PPP candidate got 22,307.