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| Congress eyeing independents to keep away BJP after ULB polls | | | Notwithstanding the fact that the BJP has registered its presence during the ULB poll in various parts of the Kashmir valley the state unit of the Congress is after those independents, who have won the elections, to shake hands with the Congress to keep away the BJP. In fact the BJP was itching for its mayoral posts for Srinagar Municipal Corporation and that is the reason that the Congress has cautioned the independents to side with the Congress to prevent the BJP from gaining control of Srinagar Municipal Corporation and other Municipalities. The BJP has made inroads into several parts of the Kashmir valley owing to the poll boycott call by the two regional parties, it failed to retain its hold over Jammu areas. The party won a majority in 18 of the 79 municipalities across the state and the Congress 10. Voting was not held in 27 civic bodies in the Valley either because there was no candidate or only one had filed nominations for a ward.
Of the total 1,145 wards across the state, elections were held for 716, with 244 candidates elected unopposed while there was none for 185 wards. The BJP won 312 wards and the Congress 267. The BJP won 12 civic bodies, including the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and six municipalities in the Valley - Shopian, Devsar, Mattan, Pahalgam, Qazigund and Watergam. Though the saffron party won the prestigious JMC, bagging 43 of the total 75 wards, it failed to retain its hold in Kathua, Udhampur, Reasi and the erstwhile Doda district comprising Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar. In Kathua district, the BJP managed to get a majority in only Hiranagar, winning seven of the 13 seats. Kathua district is seen as a BJP citadel.
The party had won all five Assembly seats in this district in 2014. It was owing to a substantial lead from this district that the BJP had won the Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat. The party did not win a single seat in the Kalakote municipality even though the BJP MLA from Kalakote served as a minister in the PDP-BJP government for more than three years. Had no it the National Conference and the PDP boycotted the ULB elections the BJP would have not gained any seat including the trouble torn south Kashmir. It is a strange that the BJP had won six municipalities in south Kashmir including Shopian, Desar, Mattan, Pahalgam, Qazigund and Watergam which have been known for harbouring militants and known for clashes between the protesters and the security forces and for the encounters between the security forces and the militants |
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