J&Okay Meeting Election: AAP leaders like Sanjay Singh campaigned for Mehraj Malik.
New Delhi:
The Aam Aadmi Celebration’s Mehraj Malik – who handed his celebration a primary ever electoral win in Jammu and Kashmir, in native physique polls in December 2020 – has now gained the Doda legislative seat to provide the AAP a primary ever Meeting seat within the former state. J&Okay is holding its first Meeting election in a decade.
The AAP chief completed 4,538 votes forward of the BJP’s Gajay Singh Rana and thumped the Nationwide Convention’s Khalid Najib Suharwardy by 9,894 after the scheduled 13 rounds of counting.
The Doda seat was gained by the BJP’s Shakti Raj within the 2014 election, however has historically flipped between the Nationwide Convention and the Congress for the reason that first ballot in 1962.
Mr Malik gained in a seat and area that has been roiled by terror assaults over the previous a number of months; as not too long ago as August, the truth is, an Military Captain was killed in motion in an encounter with terrorists within the Assar space of the district. A civilian was additionally injured. Safety forces additionally recovered a United States-made assault rifle and three blood-soaked rucksacks with tools and logistics.
In reality, in July J&Okay Police launched a significant crackdown on entrenched terror networks after a lethal encounter in Doda through which 4 Military personnel, together with one other officer, had been killed in motion.
READ | Main Crackdown In opposition to Terror Community After Doda Encounter
Doda was additionally the place Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir election marketing campaign; his go to final month was the primary by a sitting Prime Minister in over 4 a long time.
Multi-tier safety was deployed throughout Doda and Kishtwar in preparation for Mr Modi’s go to.
The AAP chief’s good exhibiting is an outlier in an election dominated by the Nationwide Convention-Congress alliance, which has claimed victory with 49 seats.
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The BJP – which has by no means dominated J&Okay by itself – completed a distant second with 29 seats.
Exit polls had given the Congress-NC alliance a slight edge. An mixture of three signifies the Congress-NC will win 43 seats and the BJP 26, with the PDP successful between 4 and 12.
Hero In J&Okay, Zero In Haryana
The AAP’s success in J&Okay comes as a little bit of a shock to many, significantly because it has been blanked in Haryana – celebration boss Arvind Kejriwal’s residence state. Ought to the Haryana pattern maintain – and there’s nothing to recommend it won’t – will probably be a significant setback, significantly for the reason that Delhi election is simply months away.
The AAP’s Haryana loss can be key given it couldn’t agree a seat-share with the Congress, with which it’s allied – beneath the INDIA bloc umbrella – on the nationwide stage.
The AAP and Congress had all however reached an settlement however state leaders from both aspect vetoed a deal requested for by Rahul Gandhi, who has typically spoken of the necessity for the opposition to face united.
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