Jammu and Kashmir voted in its first Meeting elections since 2014 and its first as a Union Territory.
The ultimate votes are being solid in Haryana and it’ll quickly be time to seek out out what the exit polls have predicted for the state in addition to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
It’s a largely bipolar contest in Haryana and an vital one each for the BJP, which is seeking to kind a authorities within the state for the third straight time and the Congress, which is hoping to make a comeback.
The BJP gained solely 5 of the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana after sweeping all of them in 2019 and these Meeting elections are a chance for the social gathering to show that it stays well-liked with voters after failing – for the primary time in 10 years – to attain a majority by itself within the normal elections.
Within the Lok Sabha elections, the opposite 5 constituencies in Haryana have been gained by the Congress, which believes it’s in a robust place to kind the federal government within the state this time.
The 2019 Meeting elections had seen the BJP successful 40 of the state’s 90 seats, the Congress 31 and the Jannayak Janta Celebration (JJP) 10. The BJP had shaped the federal government with the assist of the JJP and Dushyant Chautala turned the deputy chief minister. The alliance ended after the BJP changed Manohar Lal Khattar with Nayab Singh Saini because the chief minister in March.
Jammu and Kashmir additionally has 90 seats and it voted in its first Meeting elections since 2014, first as a Union Territory and first after the elimination of Article 370, which gave the erstwhile state particular standing.
Statehood has been a serious challenge within the elections and its restoration has been promised by the BJP – together with by PM Narendra Modi and Dwelling Minister Amit Shah – in addition to the Congress and the Nationwide Convention, which contested the polls in an alliance.
One other main participant is Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Celebration and different events embody Abdul Ghani Lone’s Folks’s Convention, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Celebration and Altaf Bukhari’s Apni Celebration. An fascinating growth in these elections was the entry of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, which backed some candidates, and its strategic alliance with Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Celebration.
The counting of votes shall be held on October 8.