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South Kashmir- BJP Report Card from ULB Elections

The Bhartiya Janta party has won 53 of the 132 wards in South Kashmir where polls were held in four phases earlier this month.

The unprecedented victory for the right wing party has given it control of at least four of the 20 civic bodies in the four districts of South Kashmir.

The results of 94 wards of south Kashmir have been declared so far in which the Congress has managed to win 28 seats. The party, thus, will have control of at least three municipal bodies.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did well in Shopian where its candidates won in 12 wards unopposed. Five wards in the district did not have any nominations and in Devsar municipal committee, the party won all the eight seats.

The BJP got a simple majority in Qazigund Municipal Committee, winning four of the seven wards. The other three wards had no candidates.

In Pahalgam municipal committee, the party won seven of the 13 seats uncontested, while there were no candidates for the remaining six seats.

The Congress, on the other hand, won in Dooru municipal committee where the party bagged 14 of the 17 seats, while the BJP managed to win two seats. One seat remained vacant.

In Yaripora, the party bagged three seats, while the remaining three seats were vacant due to absence of candidates. Independents bagged 13 seats in the polls.

In the township of Islamabad (Anantnag) the congress won 20 out of 25 seats while in Mattan BJP won 7 wards, Congress managed to bag 10 wards for Kokernag MC.