Addressing the media in Udhampur, Choudhary alleged that the BJP could not have achieved the win without offering "lollipops", a metaphor for financial or political inducements to MLAs to cross-vote.
Sat Sharma's daughter, Rajeshwari Sharma, said, "I feel very proud...the whole family is extremely happy...this is the victory of the people of Jammu."
The National Conference leaders and workers celebrated the party's win with dance and music. The ruling Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) won three out of four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
Leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Sunil Sharma termed National Conference's defeat in one Rajya Sabha seat a "big defeat for Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah's ideology."
National Conference (NC) candidate Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo on Friday expressed gratitude to his party and supporters following his win in the Rajya Sabha seat from Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir unit BJP President Sat Sharma, who won the Rajya Sabha election, said on Friday expressed gratitude to the top party leadership, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for his candidature.
In a post on X, Abdullah asserted that there was "no cross-voting" by members of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) and questioned how the BJP secured extra votes. He also sought clarity on the MLAs who invalidated their ballots by marking incorrect preference numbers.
All four Rajya Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir had been vacant since February 2021, following the retirement of Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mir Mohammad Fayaz, Shamsher Singh, and Nazir Ahmed Laway.
New Delhi/ Chandigarh [India], October 23: Padma Shri Rajinder Gupta, Chairman Emeritus of the Trident Group, one of India's leading diversified conglomerates, has been elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab, underscoring the state's recognition of his decades-long contribution to
National Conference was joined by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami and other independent MLAs in the meeting to strategise for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday.