Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rakesh Mahajan on Monday expressed confidence that the party would win all three seats for which it has put up candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
The BJP put up a impressive performance bagging 29 seats. Peoples' Democratic Party won three seats 3 seats and one each by the People's Conference, CPI-M and AAP. Seven seats were also won by the Independents.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated the National Conference alliance over its victory in Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls and said peaceful polls and enthusiastic participation in the polling process were a "victory of the Indian Constitution and democracy"
As preparations are on for the counting of votes for Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, Doda District Election Officer (DEO) Harvinder Singh on Sunday said that all necessary arrangements are complete.
The third and final phase of polling in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir saw a voter turnout of 65.48 percent till 5 pm on Tuesday, the Election Commission of India
A voter turnout of 56.01 percent has been recorded till 3 pm in the third and final phase of ongoing Assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, according to the Election Commission of India.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the former deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Kavinder Gupta, said that the people in the region had shown their gratitude as well as their faith in democracy during the third phase of voting in the J&K assembly polls.
Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks that the National Conference (NC) and Congress alliance would "follow the agenda of Pakistan," NC Vice President Omar Abdullah on Thursday countered that the party would have pursued such an agenda 35 years ago if that were the case.
Senior BJP leader Smriti Irani addressed a public meeting in support of BJP candidate Dr Davinder Kumar Manyal in Samba on Wednesday ahead of the third phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir.
A high-level delegation of senior diplomats from USA, Mexico, Guyana, South Korea, Somalia, Panama, Singapore, Nigeria, Spain, South Africa, Norway, Tanzania, Rwanda, Algeria, and the Phillipines travelled to Kashmir to witness the ongoing assembly elections
Azad also pointed out that the regional parties in the Union Territory are dividing the people based on religion and roads, schools and education are not an issue, but Islam is a danger--that is the issue.