NC-Congress alliance leads with 52 seats as per EC data

NEW DELHI: With the counting of votes currently under way, the updated trends by the Election Commission of India (ECI) released at 11.40 am on Tuesday have indicated that in Jammu and Kashmir, the Jammu Kashmir National Conference (NC) and Congress alliance are leading with 52 seats.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading with 26 seats. As per the Election Commission data, between 3-5 rounds of counting has been completed in most of the 90 constituencies in the region. The voting results decide the electoral fate of several former ministers including Tara Chand, Muzaffar Baig, Raman Bhalla, Basharat Bukha along with Omar Abdullah, Ravinder Raina, Yousuf Tarigami and several others.

Jammu and Kashmir Congress Chief Tariq Hameed Karra said that the final results would be accordingly and further added that the alliance partners would have to sit and formulate on how the power sharing has to be done.

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Karra said “I have been maintaining that our mark will cross 50 in Jammu and Kashmir. I am still hoping that the final results will be accordingly. Any person or political party who are on the page of keeping away the BJP, they are most welcomed. The nomination of the five MLA seats by the LG are pre-meditate, pre-conceived and pre-poll rigging. They have insulted the popular mandate and they just wanted to convert the majority into minority and vice versa”.

Further, Karra added that it would be difficult to predict on what would happen in Haryana. “See, it is very difficult to predict on what would happen in Haryana next. We will have to wait for the final result. Our biggest mission here in Jammu Kashmir is to bring the statehood back,” he said.

Karra is leading from the Central Shalteng Assembly constituency, by a margin of 10,263 votes, after round 9/13 of counting as per the latest EC data at 11.56 am. (ANI)