Altaf Hussain
So, the mood in Gupkar Alliance is upbeat. But, the going is too tough for them. The choices for the Gupkar Alliance are limited. Hardly any non-BJP party has supported them wholeheartedly.
A health worker checking the temperature of voters with thermo gun before allowing them to cast their votes at a polling station in Government Higher Secondary School Wakoora in Ganderbal district where the election for the fifth phase of District Development Council was held in Jammu and Kashmir on December 10, 2020. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
The government, of India as also the ruling party, the BJP, has been touting the just-concluded DDC (district development council) elections in Jammu and Kashmir as a huge achievement. They argue that the Union Territory has shown faith in the democratic process after the bifurcation of the erstwhile state and the withdrawal of its special status within the Indian union. They described the people’s participation in polls as a setback to mil
Srinagar: Except for Drugmalla constituency in Kupwara district and Hajin-A constituency in Bandipora district, results of 278 of the 280 DDC seats in J&K were declared on Wednesday. The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) won the maximum seats at 110, the BJP won the majority of seats in Jammu region at 72, and Independents won 50 seats, 7 of them in Srinagar.
The BJP won three seats in Kashmir region and emerged as the single largest party in the DDCs in J&K with a total of 75 seats.
The PAGD led by National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah won 84 DDC seats in Kashmir and 26 in Jammu region. It bagged a vote share of 23% across all districts.
SRINAGAR: Srinagar, the Kashmir capital city has finally emerged as the “political cosmos” of Jammu and Kashmir with everybody having a say. However, independents are the majority. PAGD and Apni
BJP candidate Engineer Aijaz Hussain who won from one of the 14 DDC seats from Srinagar. He defeated Apni Party. Aijaz is flashing a victory sign after being declared a winner on December 22, 2020. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
We have fought against the Gang and want to show them that people are inclined more towards @narendramodi ji & @BJP4India than #PAGD in #Kashmir. The people of valley will definitely give seats to @BJP4India owing the popularity of PM in Kashmir. Let all pray for our win.
Results will be accessed online dynamically: SEC
Srinagar, Dec 21:The counting for 280 District Development Council (DDC) seats would begin on Tuesday which would decide the fate of 2,178 candidates who had contested in the polls.
The State Election Commissioner, K K Sharma on Monday said that the State Election Commission has made all necessary arrangements for tomorrow’s counting of votes. The counting for 280 DDC constituencies will begin from 9 am on Tuesday at all district headquarters across Jammu and Kashmir, Sharma said.
Sharma said the election results would be accessed online dynamically.
Sharma said the overall voting percentage in all eight phases across Jammu and Kashmir is 51.42 per cent and over 30 lakh votes would be counted at counting centres.
Yawar Hussain
explains the spectacle in wake of historic realties
A cartoon by Kashmir’s legendary cartoonist BAB saying the PADG would fight for 370, then will fight elections and will eventually fight within.
With Kashmir’s traditional rivals in politics joining hands post 5/8 to form Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the fault lines separating their turfs refuse to dissipate despite the leadership bonhomie. Throughout the post-partition history, the rivals have fed their followers with so much hate against each other that now political identities at ground zero defy the leadership.
There is a groundswell of support in PAGD’s favour but it is so wavering in certain areas that it can upset the calculations of top Kashmir parties. PAGD leaders admit they had not envisioned it. There are rebellions within the parties. At countless places, a PAGD candidate is in the contest against proxy candidates of the PAGD constituents.