After witnessing outstanding voter turnout in Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar has hinted on the likelihood of Meeting elections within the erstwhile state as quickly as doable. The event comes at a time when Srinagar and Baramulla seats in J&Ok has witnessed the best voting share with 38% and 59% file polling, respectively.
“The extremely profitable conduct of polls with spectacular turnout in Srinagar and Baramulla offers the Election Fee the boldness to carry Meeting polls in J&Ok on the earliest,” CEC Rajiv Kumar instructed the Indian Categorical on Monday.
Jammu and Kashmir is at the moment ruled by a Lieutenant Governor (L-G), who’s appointed by the Central Authorities. This association has been working since 2018. In December 2023, the Apex Court docket ordered the Election Fee of India to conduct the meeting polls within the Union Territory by September this yr.
Voter Turnout In Lok Sabha Polls 2024
Srinagar went to ballot within the fourth part of the Lok Sabha elections on Might 13. This marked the primary main election in Kashmir because the abrogation of Article 370. A complete of 41% of voters exercised their proper to vote, elevating the voting share to its highest because the 1996 common elections.
Similarily, within the fifth part on Might 20, Baramulla recorded a outstanding 59% turnout, the best in lots of a long time.
Key leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) have praised the noteworthy voter turnout in Kashmir constituencies, crediting it to the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019. Amit Shah dubbed the achievement “a momentous event for Kashmir!’
Nevertheless, the Nationwide Convention (NC) and the Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP) have contended that the substantial voter participation contradicts the choice made on August 5, 2019.
2014 Meeting Elections
Again within the November-December 2014 Meeting elections, the Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP) received 28 seats, the Bhartiya Janata Celebration (BJP) received 25, and the Nationwide Convention (NC) bagged 15 seats.
The PDP and BJP joined palms to kind the federal government, with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed turning into the chief minister. When Sayeed handed away in January 2016, his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, took over as the subsequent chief minister. Nevertheless, in June 2018, the BJP withdrew its help for the federal government led by the PDP, resulting in the imposition of governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir.
