The Farooq Abdullah-led People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration is leading for a big triumph in the first elections held in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of the erstwhile state’s special status in August 2019. The alliance has won in 110 seats of the total 280 in the District Development Councils (DDCs).
Votes are still being counted, meantime, it is clear that the BJP is emerging as the single largest party with wins and leads in 74 DDC seats. It is sweeping the Hindu-dominated districts viz Jammu, Udhampur, Kathua and Samba, in the Jammu Division, leading in 49 out 56 DDC seats.
The poll results imply that the BJP has secured control of at least six District Development Councils in Jammu and none in Kashmir. The People’s Alliance has a majority in nine DDCs, all in the Valley. As there is no clear-cut majority in the five councils, the independent candidates are likely to play the role of king makers.
National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said that 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. “The BJP is the one which turned these elections as a referendum of its policy of 2019. I hope they have understood the desire of the people,” he said.
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