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| Fate of 85 candidates sealed as nearly 78% voting in Kargil Council elections | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: Fate of 85 candidates sealed in EVMs as around 77.61 per cent voting was recorded on Wednesday in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council elections in Kargil.
This was first elections tconducted in Kargil district of Ladakh as Union Territory (UT) after Article 370 was scrapped in August 2019 and the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories. The votes will be counted on Sunday. As many as 85 candidates are fighting for 26 seats.
The contest is between the BJP, the National Conference and Congress combine.
At a poll rally, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had urged voters to send a “clear message to reject or accept” the decision made by the NDA government on August 5, 2019.
Kargil has long been a National Conference stronghold.
Two powerful religious institutions - the Jamiat Ulema Kargil, known as the Islamia School, traditionally backing the National Conference, and the Imam Khumaini Memorial Trust backing the Congress - are driving the politics in Kargil.
Earlier, the Ladakh administration had denied the “plough” symbol to National Conference candidates which led to a legal battle, with the Supreme Court setting aside the Ladakh hill council polls, earlier scheduled for September 10.
As reported earlier ,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. |
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