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| Yet again, single largest party got 28 seats! | | Startling coincidence | | Kunal Shrivatsa
Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 24: Another assembly election and one more fractured mandate but a hung Assembly third time in row is not an isolated resemblance. Some peculiar kinds of similarities are also attached to every Assembly poll held since 2002.
In a rare coincidence, the single largest party on all the three occasions has bagged 28 seats, which has appeared to be a stumbling block for the political parties for the last 12 years.
If the figures of 2002-Assembly polls take into account then it was National Conference (NC) which got as many as 28 seats and appeared as the single largest party though it did not stake claim to form the government as it was well short of the magical figure of 44 seats.
NC's refusal to stake claim for the power ultimately paved way for a Congress-Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) coalition government which ruled the state for almost six years.
In 2008, NC again emerged as the single largest party by winning 28 seats and this time around it cobbled up a post-poll alliance with the Congress to form the government.
And, the number '28' has once again played its part in the current Assembly polls as the single largest party PDP has managed to accumulate 28 seats.
The figure '28' may be a mere arithmetical numeral but it has stuck with the single largest party of the state which has become a focal point as far as the highest number of seats is concerned for the last 12 years.
The similar number of seats won by the single largest party, whosoever it may be, is not the only similarity but there are certain traits which remained visible in all the three elections from 2002 to 2014.
If the performance of second and third largest party is taken into consideration then one more related characteristic of the last three election results is that the number two political outfit has bagged seats in the range of 20 or more while the achievers of third spot in each election since 2002 have scored in the range of 15 or more.
In 2002, the Congress was on the number two spot and managed 20 seats in its kitty while the second highest seat getter PDP got 21 seats in the Assembly polls of 2008.
The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in the 2014 Assembly polls has achieved 25 seats which again is a figure in the range of twenties.
Almost, an identical picture has surfaced for the third place parties on all the three occasions as in 2002 PDP won 16, in 2008 the Congress emerged victorious on 17 seats while in this election the NC romped home on 15 seats in 2014.
Barring Assembly polls of 2002, the number of seats won by the parties who attained fourth position was also close to equal in 2008 and 2014.
While the BJP won 11 seats in 2008 Assembly polls to be placed at number 4 in the final tally, the Congress bagged 12 seats in this election to claim the fourth spot.
The only exception was 2002 Assembly polls when the fourth largest party couldn't able to muster 10 or more seats as at that time the Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) could won only 4 seats. |
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