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Can you better this? A BJP-PDP
alliance in Kashmir!
WSN Network
JAMMU: Power
corrupts. India's trouble torn Jammu and Kashmir state recently saw
an alliance that you could not have guessed even weeks back. The
BJP, PDP and JKNPP entered into an alliance for contest for
Legislative Council elections.
The unexpected
tie up ensured the victory of J&K National Panthers Party (JKNPP)
candidate in the Legislative Council elections.
National
Conference-Congress alliance did manage to win seven of the nine MLC
seats, for which elections were held last week but the loss of one
seat did take the alliance offguard.
Pradesh Congress
Committee president and Union Minister Saifuddin Soz said: “BJP, PDP
and JKNPP stand exposed, as the ‘unethical’ alliance exposes the
fact that their leaders have been befooling the people of
Jammu
in the name of regional ‘discrimination’.” Elections for four MLC
seats from the Jammu Division, two from Kashmir Division and
bye-elections for three seats were held. From Jammu division Ajat
Shatru Singh (NC), Khalid Najeeb Suharawardhy (NC) , B.R. Kundal
(Cong) and Asgar Ali (PDP) were declared elected.
There was no
uncertainty about their candidature from the beginning. But, what is
interesting is the fact that BJP candidate Shamsher Singh managed 12
votes, even as the party had only 11 members, so it means that he
did get only one vote from JKNPP-PDP. Panther’s Party has three
MLAs, while PDP has one.
The BJP had
voted for PP candidate from Kashmir division, which becomes clear
from the voting pattern for two MLC seats. Vijay Bakaya (NC), Ghulam
Nabi Monga (Cong) and Rafiq Shah (JKNPP) were in the fray but more
strange was the BJP and PDP voting together.
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March 2009
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