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| 34 parties, 1100 candidates lose deposits | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: The high voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir is though being celebrated across the country but there is no face saving for at least 36 small and big political parties which could not get any seat and more than 1100 candidates who even lost their security deposits.
There were 44 political parties and 1354 candidates –including independents –in the fray for 87 seats. All seats went to the candidates of eight political parties and four independents while no candidate from 34 parties could even save the security deposits.
Among the eight parties that scored in the staggered seven-phased polls conducted by the election commission of India, there were three parties who could only manage a single victory.
The parties that have failed to score include two national parties, BSP and SP. BSP could not manage a single seat despite being only next to National Conference when it comes to participation in the number of constituencies in the 87-seat assembly house. While, NC fielded 85 candidates, BSP contested from 83 segments of the state.
The second largest party when it comes to participation and could not manage a single seat was Awami National Conference led by 'stalwart' of Kashmir politics, Ghulam Muhammad Shah who dethroned Farooq Abdullah from power in 1984.
ANC participated in 56 seats including all 46-assemly segments in Kashmir Valley but were bowled for duck. It was after a gap of 20-years that party made the comeback on the political horizon of Kashmir but turf turned out to be under prepared for them and more so the party players could not handle the situation and did not bother the scorer, being bundled out for duck.
Interestingly, the State exchequer turned richer by more than Rs 54 lakhs, as nearly 1100 defeated candidates lost security deposits in the just-concluded elections in the state, three times higher than the previous 2002 polls.
According to the official data, out of 1,354 contesting candidates, nearly 1,100 lost their security deposits of Rs 5,000 each paid towards the state exchequer at the time of filing nominations.
"Any candidate securing less than one-sixth of the valid votes polled in a particular constituency will lose his security deposit and this money goes to the state exchequer," Chief Electoral officer of the state B R Sharma said.
While 653 of the 757 candidates from Kashmir division, including the Ladakh region, lost their security deposits, over 430 candidates from the Jammu region also had to face his ignominy.
Only 373 candidates lost their security deposits in the 2002 elections from the 87 constituencies of the state.
Interestingly, in seven of the 46 constituencies in Kashmir, none of the losing candidates were able to save their deposits. These constituencies are Karnah, Sonawari, Khanyar, Habbakadal, Pulwama, Wacchi and Shopian. First four of these constituencies were bagged by National Conference while the remaining three went to the PDP.
There were 12 constituencies where two losing candidates polled enough votes to save their deposits while in the remaining 31 seats of Kashmir division, only one candidate managed to achieve this face-saving target.
In seven constituencies, 20 or more candidates lost their deposits. In Amirakadal seat, the highest 27 candidates saw their purses getting lighter while in Sonawar (23), Sopore (22), Sonawari, Anantnag (21 each), Habba Kadal and Shopian (20 each) could not save their deposits.
The other parties that have failed to win any seat include the NCP (contested 19 seats), the RJD (contested 14) the CPI (contested seven), the All India Forward Bloc (contested 21), the Janata Dal (U) (contested six), the Janata Dal (Secular) (contested four), the RLD (contested three ), the Revolutionary Socialist Party (contested two), the Lok Janshakti Party (contested 45), the Samata Party (contested 14), the Jammu State Morcha (Progressive) (contested 14), the Socialistic Democratic Party (contested 12), the Bharatiya Bahujan Party (contested 10), the Backward Classes Democratic Party, J&K (contested seven), the Rashtriya Krantikari Samajwadi Party (contested seven), the Bhartiya Chaitanya Party (contested six), the Jammu & Kashmir National United Front (contested six), the Republican Party of India (A) (contested five), the All J&K Kisan Majdoor Party (contested four), the Janata Party (contested three), the Republican Party of India (contested three), the National Lokhind Party (contested three), the Bharatiya Sampuran Krantikari Party (contested two), the United Citizen Party (contested two), the All India Forward Bloc (Subhasist) (contested one), the Rajya Nojawan Shakti Party (contested one), the Kranti Dal (contested one), the National Democratic Party (contested one), the Forward Bloc (Socialist) (contested one), the Jammu And Kashmir Awami League (contested one), the Ambedkar National Congress (contested one) and the Adarsh Political Party (contested one).
Apart from zero scorers, there were three parties who together contested from 60 assembly segments but managed only three seats. Communist Party of India (Marxist) state secretary whose party contested from eight segments, Muhammad Yousuf Targami won one seat while People's Democratic Front, contested on 27, but only party president Hakeem Yaseen managed to emerge victorious while Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Party (Nationalist) won a single seat from twenty five and that too went into the lap of party president Ghulam Hassan Mir.
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