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| LAHDC Kargil elections: Voting today, prestige of Rahul, Omar at stake | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: Polling for the high-profile elections to the 26 seats of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Kargil will be held on Wednesday.
Wednesday’s polling will decide the fate of 85 candidates including 22 from Congress, 17 each of the National Conference and BJP, and four of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). 25 Independents are also trying their luck.
The elections for the constitution of the fifth LAHDC-Kargil became prestigious for two constituents of the Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A) namely the National Conference and Congress because top leadership of both the parties campaigned for their candidates.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi extended his stay in Ladakh to campaign for party candidates in August while vice-president of the National Conference and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah extensively campaigned for his party nominees in the last two days of campaigning.
While addressing a rally at Kargil Rahul Gandhi supported different groups of Leh and Kargil agitating for granting statehood to Ladakh. Rahul Gandhi extended Congress's unconditional support to the demands of the Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance.
National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah, also campaigned for his party candidates for the the Kargil council elections.
Omar said that these elections would be a referendum on Article 370.
“Don’t see these elections as a mere electoral exercise. It will be the Kargil voters’ verdict on the Centre’s actions on August 5, 2019. It will send a message outside J&K that whatever happened on August 5, 2019, was totally wrong because Kargil people were, are, and will not be the supporter of this decision,” Omar said while speaking at a series of public meetings. |
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