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Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 10: Jammu Kashmir is in for a fractured mandate with no party in a position to secure the number of seats required for government formation.
There is hardly any doubt in anybody's mind that in all likelihood the voters are going to hand down a fractured mandate to the political parties.
No single national or regional party is expected to get a simple majority on its own in the 87-member state legislative assembly to stake claim on government formation on its own.
While the final numbers are being debated and discussed in political and public circles, there seems to be a consensus across the board that no single political party has been able to generate a wave in the present elections that could give it a decisive victory and a clear mandate form a stable government on its own strength and with its own numbers.
While factors like the anti-incumbency and popularity and otherwise of the contesting candidates are believed to be determining factors for victory but not in all cases are these factors working in any one specific direction. The buzz word during these elections has been change and development and yet whether the voter has been seeking such a change for development through a decisive mandate to any one party is not clear at all. It is increasingly becoming clear that some parties will lose badly, but might not be decimated while other parties will definitely make gains but not of the kind that returns undisputed verdict.
Leaders of national parties including the BJP and the Congress have sent their star campaigners to seek votes in the state. This includes the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Whether or not the repeated visits of these tall national leaders would make the required difference to return a clear mandate in assembly elections will only be known on December 23 when the EVMs are opened and counter, but even then, it is common knowledge that such visits have not resulted in decisive mandates.
The elections are likely to throw up a mixed bag and time is fast approaching when parties and their leaders bitterly criticizing each other would be engaged in hectic closed door meetings to cobble up a working alliance in the state that could rule for the next six years. |
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