Not a single Hindu or Sikh candidate from Congress got victory.
Jammu: Counting of votes for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir has been completed. National Conference i.e. NC and Congress alliance has crossed the majority mark by winning 48 seats. With this, it has now been decided that this alliance is going to form the next government in the state. Only 2 Hindu faces have won on NC ticket in this election. Let us tell you that NC and Congress had fielded a total of 30 candidates from Hindu and Sikh communities but only 2 of them were successful.
Not a single Muslim candidate of BJP could win
BJP, which won 29 seats in Jammu and Kashmir, has 28 Hindu and one Sikh members. No Muslim candidate, including two former ministers, could succeed in winning on the party ticket. BJP had fielded a total of 25 Muslim candidates in these elections. Most of the BJP’s Muslim candidates, especially in the Kashmir Valley, had their deposits forfeited. Let us tell you that the party had fielded a total of 62 candidates, but only 28 Hindu and one Sikh candidate could win their elections in Jammu region.
NC candidate defeats BJP state president
National Conference’s Surendra Chaudhary defeated Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravindra Raina from Nowshera constituency in Rajouri district by a margin of 7,819 votes. Raina had won the Nowshera seat in the 2014 assembly elections by defeating Chaudhary, who contested on a PDP ticket, by a margin of more than 10 thousand votes. However, Choudhary resigned from PDP and joined BJP in 2022 and then joined the National Conference in July last year.
Arjun Singh won the assembly elections from Ramban.
Arjun Singh Raju is the second Hindu face to win the election from Ramban assembly seat on National Conference ticket. Raju got 28,425 votes while his nearest rival, independent candidate Suraj Singh Parihar, got 19,412 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rakesh Singh Thakur stood third by getting 17511 votes. Let us tell you that Parihar had rebelled against BJP and contested the elections as an independent candidate. The National Conference had fielded 9 Hindu candidates, including a woman, but only 2 of them could win.
All Hindu and Sikh candidates of Congress lost the elections.
On the other hand, Congress had fielded 19 Hindu and 2 Sikh candidates, most of whom were from Jammu region, but none of them managed to win and most of the candidates finished second. (Language)
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