Updated Dec 24, 2020 | 09:39 IST
The state election commission has stopped counting on two seats as candidates in fray are from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Somia Sadaf | Photo Credit: ANI
Key Highlights By stopping vote counting of PoK returned candidates midway Govt Of India has proved that it is no longer the integral part of India
Somia Sadaf is the first woman from PoK to contest the DDC polls
Came to Kashmir after Omar Abdullah government announced rehabilitation policy
Srinagar: The J&K State election commission stopped vote counting on two seats as the candidates were from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Bagging 49 seats, independents emerge as key players in J&K DDC polls KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 12/24/2020 12:59:38 PM
JAMMU, Dec 23: Independent candidates have emerged as big winners in Jammu and Kashmir s maiden District Development Council polls, with 49 of them having been declared elected so far from 280 seats, putting them ahead of parties like the Congress and the PDP.
Among the big Independent wins is Taranjit Singh defeating BJP s two-time MLA and former minister Sham Lal Choudhary in Suchetgarh in Jammu region by a slender margin of 11 votes.
Though the BJP maintained its supremacy by emerging as the single largest party with 74 seats and is leading in another seat, the defeat of its stalwarts Choudhary and another former minister Shakti Raj Parihar, who lost from two constituencies in Doda district, has come as a shock for it.
Islamabad: Pakistan’s military claimed on Wednesday that a 50-year-old woman had been killed and three other civilians wounded by Indian shelling in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Tuesday.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army’s media arm, alleged that Indian troops resorted to unprovoked shelling and targeted the civilian population with mortars and heavy weapons in Tatta Pani and Jandrot sectors along the Line of Control. The injured included a four-year-old child, the ISPR said.
The shelling incidents were reported by ISPR hours before Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, visited Pakistani troops stationed at the LoC.
Tension at the LoC has been high for the last two years and both countries routinely blame each other for ceasefire violations.
Amid political chaos, Pak Senate session on Dec 30th ANI | Updated: Dec 23, 2020 10:14 IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 23 (ANI): Amid political turmoil, Pakistan Senate will convene a session on December 30 after the opposition threatened to resign from Parliament.
Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani decided to convene the session of the Upper House on December 30, reported Dawn.
Earlier, the opposition parties on December 16 had submitted a requisition notice to the Senate Secretariat seeking a session of the House to take up a number of crucial political matters, which was returned by it.
The opposition submitted a fresh requisition on Monday to discuss harassment by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), electricity and gas crises along with the reported arrest of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) workers in the recently concluded Gilgit-Baltistan elections in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Independent candidate Bilal Ahmad flashes victory sign after his lead in the District Development Council election results in Srinagar (PTI photo)
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: The People s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) swept the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls by winning 110 seats, while the BJP emerged as the single largest party by getting 74 seats after securing the largest vote share in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.
The results of four constituencies – one each in Bandipora and Kupwara districts of north Kashmir and Poonch and Rajouri districts in Jammu region – are still awaited.
The counting of votes for the 280 DDC constituencies – 14 each in 20 districts – started Tuesday morning after the peaceful culmination of the eight-phase election from November 28 to December 19. This was the first democratic exercise in Jammu and Kashmir post abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two union territories last year