Jammu– Jammu and Kashmir is about to witness its first main electoral battle because it was bifurcated and downgraded to the standing of union territory months after the final elections in 2019.
Jammu and Kashmir has a complete of 5 Lok Sabha seats — three of that are presently with the Nationwide Convention and two with the BJP.
The Union Territory has been beneath the central rule for the reason that fall of PDP-BJP authorities in June 2018. The final meeting polls have been held in Jammu and Kashmir in 2014.
A big improvement for the reason that abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019
was the delimitation train accomplished in Could 2022 as a part of J&Ok Reorganisation Act. It revised the boundaries of 90 meeting and 5 parliamentary constituencies.
The Lok Sabha polls within the Union Territory shall be held within the first 5 of the seven-phased elections : April 19 (Udhampur), April 26 (Jammu), Could 7 (Anantnag-Rajouri), Could 13 (Srinagar) and Could 20 (Baramulla). The outcomes shall be introduced on June 4.
Following are the important thing parliamentary seats to be careful for in Jammu and Kashmir:
1. Udhampur: Union minister Jitendra Singh shall be seeking to make a hat-trick of wins right here because the BJP candidate. A doctor by career, Singh retained the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat in 2019 defeating Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh, the grandson of erstwhile Maharaja Hari Singh, by an enormous margin of three,53,272 votes. In 2014, Singh had defeated former Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad by 60,976 votes.
2. Srinagar: The seat is presently held by Nationwide Convention president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah since 2017 after profitable the bye-election, necessitated by the resignation of PDP MP Tariq Hameed Karra who had wrested the seat from Abdullah in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Abdullah received the seat once more in 2019 basic elections, defeating his nearest PDP rival Aga Syed Mohsin by a margin of over 70,000 votes. Karra joined the Congress in February 2017.
3. Anantnag-Rajouri: This parliamentary constituency covers Anantnag, Shopian and Kulgam districts of south Kashmir and most elements of the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch within the Jammu area. It attracts the BJP’s consideration because the celebration seems to be to enhance its LS seat tally from J-Ok.
The seat, which witnessed main redrawing by the delimitation panel, is presently held by Nationwide Convention chief and former choose Hasnain Masoodi who had wrested the seat from PDP president Mehbooba Mufti.
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