J&K DDC results LIVE: Gupkar Alliance bags 110 seats, BJP 75, Congress 26

Jammu and Kashmir local election result: BJP emerged as the single largest party by getting 75 seats after securing the largest vote share in Jammu and Kashmir. Stay tuned for Latest LIVE news

6:26 PM

Results of 278 DDC seats declared; PAGD gets 110, BJP 75

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 75 seats after securing the largest vote share in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. The results of two constituencies - one each in Bandipora and Kupwara districts of north Kashmir - are still awaited as counting of votes has been deferred there till further orders, they said.

 

The counting of votes for the 280 DDC constituencies - 14 each in 20 districts - started on 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 union territories last year.

 

Out of the 278 seats for which results have been declared by the J-K Election Commission so far, besides the PAGD and the BJP, Independent candidates have won 50, Congress 26, Apni Party 12, PDF and the National Panthers Party two each and the BSP one.

 

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Jammu and Kashmir DDC elections: BJP won 75 seats so far

5:59 PM

BJP got more votes than 'Gupkar Gang' in J-K DDC elections, says Anurag Thakur

After BJP emerged as the single largest party in first-ever elections to District Development Councils (DDCs) in Jammu and Kashmir, Anurag Thakur, BJP's in-charge of the polls in the Union Territory on Wednesday claimed that his party got more votes than the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD).

 

"It is important to know that independent candidates have polled more votes than the Congress and the PDP. The same Mehbooba Mufti who had refused to unfurl the Tricolour has got a befitting reply today," Thakur said in a press conference in Jammu. "The trust which the J-K people have put in Modiji, the support which they have shown in his policies and to his work to strengthen the democratic principles, are the reasons why BJP has got three seats in the Kashmir Valley," he added.

 

The Union Minister said that people participated extensively in the DDC election and over 51 per cent polling was recorded which was very good compared to previous elections.

 

"Many parties in the Guptakar gang did not gather to challenge BJP and Modi ji. BJP got 75 seats in Jammu and Kashmir which is the highest. The vote share of BJP is 38.74 per cent and the total vote of Gupakar Gang is 32.96 per cent. BJP got a total of 4,87,364 votes and the total votes of NC, PDP and Congress together is 4,77000 which is much less than BJP's vote," he said.

5:29 PM

Centre should listen to the voice of people of J&K: Omar Abdullah

The Centre should listen to the people's voice against the abrogation of Article 370 since it has itself termed the DDC polls as a victory of democracy, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday. Addressing party workers at NC headquarters Nawa-i-Subah, he said the people have made clear their view by supporting the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) in the District Development Council polls.

 

The NC leader also said he does not foresee assembly elections in the union territory anytime soon because of the poll results.

 

The seven-party PAGD swept the maiden DDC polls by winning 110 seats out of 276 for which results were declared, while the BJP emerged as the single largest party by getting 74 seats after securing the biggest vote share in Jammu and Kashmir. If you really say that democracy has won, then you will have to listen to the voices of the people, and the people of Jammu and Kashmir have said it with a huge majority that they do not accept (the decisions of) August 5, 2019, Abdullah said.

4:52 PM

Amit Shah thanks people of J&K for voting BJP as single largest party in DDC polls

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Jammu and Kashmir DDC elections: BJP won 75 seats so far

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Jammu and Kashmir DDC polls: Margin of victory less than 100 on 19 seats

Nineteen candidates saw an extremely close contest in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir where the margin of victory was less than 100. Of these candidates, eight are Independents, followed by three from the BJP, two each from the National Conference and the Congress and one each from the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP), People Democratic Front (PDF) and the Peoples Conference (PC), as per data of the state election authority.

 

Avtar Singh, a Sikh who contested as Independent candidate in the Dadsara constituency of Pulwama district, won the DDC polls by just three votes. Singh polled 246 votes while rival NC candidate Ali Mohmmad Bhat polled 243 votes.

 

Khalid Bibi won Larnoo segment of Anantnag district on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket with a thin margin of seven votes as she polled 4,580 votes against his rival Independent candidate Sajida Begam, who polled 4,573 votes. Two candidates lost by just 11 votes in Shopian district. Former BJP minister Sham Lal Choudhary lost in the Suchetgarh constituency of Jammu district by 11 votes.

4:05 PM

BJP keeps calling us Kashmir based party: Omar Abdullah

3:28 PM

DDC polls: Gupkar group fails to reach halfway mark, BJP single largest

The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) has been restricted to only 110 seats and has failed to cross the halfway mark of 140 during the recent District Development Council elections, whereas the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged as the single largest party, winning 75 seats alone. While dominating the electorate in Kashmir division, PAGD has only managed to grab three seats in Srinagar, with independent candidates winning seven seats, and BJP winning one seat from Srinagar.

 

BJP's Aijaz Hussain, who won from Srinagar's Balhama constituency is Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha's national Vice President.

 

The PAGD's poor performance in Srinagar is being seen as the people's disappointment with the older order and their willingness to go with the independent leaders in the valley. Independent candidates emerged victorious in 49 DDC seats, way more than Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party, which only managed to grab 27 seats.

 

Among the PAGD allies, the National Conference won the highest number of 67 seats, followed by PDP with 27 seats, People's Conference took 8 seats, CPI(M) won 5 seats and J&K Peoples Movement only 3 seats.

2:52 PM

DDC polls: PAGD gets clear majority in 6 of 20 Jammu and Kashmir districts, BJP in 5

The PAGD has got a clear majority in six districts, followed by the BJP in five in the maiden DDC election in Jammu and Kashmir but the alliance of seven mainstream parties has got an edge over the saffron party in six other districts as it is just short of one or two seats for the majority. Independent candidates hold sway in the rest of the two districts Srinagar and Poonch where they have won seven seats each . An independent candidate is also leading in another seat in Poonch district, where the counting for one of the constituencies is still in progress.

 

The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), which among others includes regional heavyweights National Conference and PDP, 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 and the maximum vote share in Jammu and Kashmir.

 

The results of four constituencies - one each in Bandipora and Kupwara districts of north Kashmir and Poonch and Rajouri districts in Jammu region - are still awaited.

 

The counting of votes for the 280 DDC constituencies -- 14 each in 20 districts -- started on 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 union territories last year.

2:43 PM

DDC polls in J&K can be surmised as a victory of democracy: Ravi Shankar Prasad

2:22 PM

DDC polls LIVE: BJP got three seats in the Kashmir Valley, says Anurag Thakur

1:48 PM

Bagging 49 seats out of 280, Independents emerge as key player in J&K DDC polls

Independent candidates have emerged as big winners in Jammu and Kashmir's maiden District Development Council polls, with 49 of them having been declared elected so far from 280 seats, putting them ahead of parties like the Congress and the PDP. Among the big Independent wins is Taranjit Singh defeating BJP's two-time MLA and former minister Sham Lal Choudhary in Suchetgarh in Jammu region by a slender margin of 11 votes, PTI reported.

 

Though the BJP maintained its supremacy by emerging as the single largest party with 74 seats and is leading in another seat, the defeat of its stalwarts Choudhary and another former minister Shakti Raj Parihar, who lost from two constituencies in Doda district, has come as a shock for it. Choudhary lost to Singh by a razor-thin margin. Singh polled 12,969 votes against Choudhary's 12958, according to the results declared by the J&K Election Commissioner in the early hours of Wednesday.

 

Choudhary, who originally hailed from Bhimber Tehsil in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir before his family migrated to border village Chakroi in R S Pura sector, had won Suchetgarh assembly seat for the first time in 2008 and repeated the performance for the party in 2014. Singh expressed gratitude to his voters and said the vote for him was "against the farm laws imposed by the BJP government on the farmers of the country against their will".

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J&K DDC election result LIVE: Gupkar Alliance bags 110 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.

10:22 AM

J&K DDC election result LIVE: JKPCC president's son loses DDC polls from Anantnag

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Ghulam Ahmad Mir' son Naseer Ahmad Mir on Tuesday lost the District Development Council (DDC) polls from Anantnag district of the union territory. Naseer Ahmad Mir, who contested from the Verinag constituency of south Kashmir district, lost to independent candidate Peer Shahbaz Ahmad.

9:29 AM

15 per cent independent candidates won DDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir

Forty-two independent candidates have registered their victory in the District Development Council (DDC) elections, the counting for which was under progress late on Tuesday night in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Read on...

9:27 AM

Former BJP minister Choudhary loses DDC election in Jammu by 11 votes

Former BJP minister Sham Lal Choudhary lost by a razor-thin margin of 11 votes in Su

1:40 AM

DDC polls: PAGD bags 99 seats, BJP emerges as single largest party by winning 77 seats

Former BJP minister Shakti Raj Parihar lost the District Development Council (DDC) election from two constituencies in Doda district despite his party emerging as the single largest party in Jammu and Kashmir in the first election after abrogation of the special status and downgrading of the erstwhile state into a Union Territory last year.
 

The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of seven mainstream parties including National Conference and PDP which have come together to seek restoration of the special status, was leading the result tally late Tuesday night by winning 99 seats against 77 won by the BJP.
 

Independent candidates won 45 seats till the filing of this report.
 

Congress won 22 seats, J&K Apni party 11, J&K national panthers party two, BSP and PDF one each, according to the results for 251 seats, out of total 280, declared by the J&K election commission.
 

Parihar lost the election to National Conference rival Asim Hashmi from Gundana segment and Congress opponent from Marmat seat Mushtaq Ahmad, both falling in Doda district, as the day-long counting witnessed a see-saw battle between him and his opponents.
 

Hashmi defeated Parihar by a margin of 1,336 votes, while Ahmad won by 1,330 against Parihar from Marmat constituency.
 

The BJP had so far won eight seats from the district, while two more seats were won by Congress and another went to an independent candidate. The result of one seat was awaited.
 

Former BJP ministers Sham Choudhary was leading by a slender margin of 157 votes against his near rival, independent candidate Taranjit Singh from Suchetgarh constituency of Jammu district. Choudhary polled 12,180 votes against Singh's 12,023 votes.
 

Singh expressed gratitude to his voters and said the vote for him was "against the farm laws imposed by the BJP government on the farmers of the country against their will.
 

BJP went for aggressive campaigning bringing union ministers, chief ministers and national leaders to divert the attention of the voters from the real issues facing the public, Singh, who was leading the constituency till mid-day, said.
 

Out of 12 results declared so far from Jammu district, the BJP had bagged 11 while one constituency was won by the National Conference candidate.
 

11:58 PM

J&K DDC poll results LIVE: BJP ahead in 70 seats as counting continues

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J&K DDC result LIVE: Poll results made it clear that people voted for Gupkar alliance, says Mufti

DDC election results made it clear that people of J&K voted en masse for PAGD, thus rejecting unconstitutional decision to abrogate Article 370: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti

10:05 PM

J&K DDC poll result LIVE: BJP has established acceptability in J&K, says Jitendra Singh

This is the vindication of PM Modi's decision to introduce grass route democracy in J&K. Biggest achievement, as far as the BJP is concerned, it has established its acceptability across the entire region of J&K: Dr Jitendra Singh, MoS PMO and BJP leader on DDC elections

10:01 PM

J&K DDC elections: BJP emerges as single largest party

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J&K DDC election result LIVE: Gupkar Alliance wins in 82 constituencies

J&K DDC election result LIVE: Gupkar Alliance wins in 82 constituencies

8:19 PM

LIVE: Victory in DDC elections a shot in the arm for the PAGD

The counting of votes for the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday has given a clear lead to the People's Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD).

 

Of the 280 seats that went to polls for the DDC elections the leads on 258 seats have indicated that the Kashmir-based amalgam of the mainstream parties, the PAGD, has either won or is leading on 107 segments, the BJP leading on 65 segments, the Congress on 22, Apni Party which was launched after the abrogation of Article 370 on 10 and others on 54 segments.

 

On expected lines, the PAGD has bagged most of the seats from the Kashmir valley while BJP has fared well in its traditional bastion of Jammu. The BJP has though been successful to break into Kashmir valley by winning three seats. Engineer Aijaz Hussain, the BJP candidate from Khanmoh-II in Srinagar and Aejaz Ahmad Khan won a seat from the Bandipora district while Minha Lateef won from Kakpora in Pulwama.

8:06 PM

J&K DDC election results LIVE: BJP leading in 28 seats in Jammu division

7:54 PM

CBSE board exams will not start in February, says Ramesh Pokhriyal

Every year the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts examinations for classes 10 and 12 starting in February, but the board exams in 2021 would be delayed.

 

According to Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, there is no proposal to conduct board examinations in February 2021. Along with this the Union Ministry of Education has clarified that other procedures related to the board examinations will also be given additional time.

 

Giving information about the upcoming board examinations on Tuesday, Nishank said, "The process of board examinations will no longer be started in January-February this time". Usually the board examinations start from the last week of February. There are also various practical examinations conducted during January every year. READ MORE...

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Union Cabinet meeting scheduled to be held tomorrow via video conference

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DDC polls: People of Jammu and Kashmir gave full support to Gupkar alliance, says Omar Abdullah

National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said people from Jammu as well as Kashmir have extended complete support to the Gupkar alliance and endorsed its plan seeking restoration of J-K's special status by giving a befitting reply to the BJP in the DDC polls. His remarks came amid counting of votes of the District Development Council (DDC) elections, in which the People's Alliance on Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) is leading in 81 seats and has won 30 so far whereas the BJP is leading in 56 and has won eight seats till now.

 

The Congress is leading in 19 seats and has bagged four seats so far. The results and emerging trends of DDC polls should act as an "eye-opener" for the BJP and "its proxy political party", Abdullah said in an apparent reference to the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party.

 

The trends show that the people have not accepted the government's unilateral decision of revoking the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, and downgrading it to a Union Territory, the NC leader said. Abdullah, who is a former chief minister, told PTI that the results and trends are an "important milestone" for the PAGD as they endorse "our view" that revoking of special status was not acceptable to the people.

7:01 PM

JKPCC president's son loses DDC polls from Anantnag district

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Ghulam Ahmad Mir' son Naseer Ahmad Mir on Tuesday lost the District Development Council (DDC) polls from Anantnag district of the union territory. Naseer Ahmad Mir, who contested from the Verinag constituency of south Kashmir district, lost to independent candidate Peer Shahbaz Ahmad.

 

Son of the JKPCC president, Naseer Ahmad Mir had plunged into electoral politics for the first time. His father, a former minister, has been the JKPCC president for two consecutive terms since 2015.

 

Ghulam Ahmad Mir had also lost his last election when he contested the Parliamentary polls from the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. He was defeated by National Conference's Hasnain Masoodi in the 2019 polls.