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Srinagar, October 24 (IANS) In the elections held on Friday for four Rajya Sabha seats, the National Conference (NC) won three and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won one seat.
NC’s Mohammad Ramzan Choudhary, Sajjad Kitchlu and Shami Oberoi and BJP’s Sat Sharma won the Rajya Sabha seats, Election Commission officials said, with voting taking place today at the Assembly complex in Srinagar.
87 MLAs voted in the Rajya Sabha elections held on Friday, of which 86 MLAs voted in person, while Doda MLA Mehraj Malik, who is currently in custody, voted through postal ballot.
Sajjad Lone of People’s Conference (PC) stayed away from the voting process.
While the NC had a clear lead on three seats, the contest for the fourth seat was crucial as the NC was expected to win this seat too with the support of 6 Congress MLAs, 6 Independents, one from the CPI-M, one from the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) and one from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Two assembly seats, one at Nagrota in Jammu division and the other at Budgam in the valley, were vacant as by-elections to both these assembly seats are going to be held on November 11.
Budgam fell vacant after Omar Abdullah resigned from the seat and decided to represent Ganderbal constituency in the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
Omar had won both Budgam and Ganderbal seats in the 2024 elections.
The Nagrota seat fell vacant after the demise of BJP MLA Devender Singh Rana, who had won the seat in the 2024 elections, on October 31, 2024.
In the 2024 elections, NC won 42, BJP 29, Congress 6, PDP 3, CPI-M 1, PC 1, AIP 1, AAP 1 and 6 independent candidates won.
Congress later decided to support the Omar Abdullah-led NC government from outside, while 5 independents later joined the NC.
–IANS
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