Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 20: Although both BJP and Congress staking claims of comfortably winning the Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat, experts have kept their fingers crossed after watching voting patterns in different assembly segments on this Parliamentary seat.
Experts have reasons to keep their fingers crossed because brisk voting was held in strongholds of both BJP and Congress candidates namely Dr. Jitendra Singh and Choudhary Lal Singh.
In the Hiranagar assembly segment of Kathua district, which is a citadel of BJP 63,637 voters cast their votes.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, out of a total of 1,21, 937 voters 88507 had cast their votes. Out of these 88507 votes, Dr. Jitendra Singh got 70763 votes.
Similarly in the Banihal Assembly segment of the Ramban district, 45215 voters had cast their votes in the 2019 elections out of which the then Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh got 34011 votes. This time 72336 voters cast their votes on Friday.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Dr. Jitendra Singh got the majority of votes from Udhampur and Kathua district. From the three assembly segments of Udhampur district the lead of Dr Singh was 1.57 lakh.
In Kathua district Brisk voting was held in strongholds of both BJP and Congress candidates
In the Hiranagar assembly segment of Kathua district, which is a citadel of BJP 63,637 voters cast their votes.
In the Banihal Assembly segment of Ramban district, 45215 voters had cast their votes in the 2019 elections of which the then Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh bagged 34011 votes.
This time six assembly segments of Kathua recorded nearly 70 percent voting.
In the Bani assembly segment, Dr Singh got 23098 votes while Vikramaditya secured 7060 votes. In the Basholi assembly segment which is hometown of present Congress candidate Choudhary Lal Singh, Dr Singh had secured 43125 votes as compared to his Congress rival Vikramditya Sigh who got 6389 votes.
From Kathua, Billawar and Hiranagar assembly segments Dr Singh got 76547, 62488, and 70683 votes while his rival got 12909, 12918, and 10063 votes.
This time Congress candidate Choudhary Lal Singh, who is a native of Kathua district, has focussed on this part of the constituency which is a stronghold of BJP.
This time six assembly segments of Kathua recorded nearly 70 percent voting. As per initial data shared by the authorities out of a total of 502944 votes in six assembly segments of Kathua district, 352553 voters cast their votes. A maximum number of 82162 voters of the Kathua (reserved) constituency exercised their right to the franchise while as minimum 35822 voters of Bani assembly segment cast their votes. | 