Suhail Khan
Srinagar, Oct 24 : In a reaction to the declared Rajya Sabha results, People’s Conference President Sajad Gani Lone has called the outcome a “fixed match” between the National Conference (NC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Taking to the microblogging platform X, Lone as per Kashmir Convener stated, “So the BJP wins the fourth seat. As predicted, a fixed match. The axis of evil: NC and BJP.” He said, “Thank God I abstained. Imagine what my plight would have been.”
He further elaborated on his allegations in a subsequent post, questioning the voting patterns: “It is now mathematically proven that it was a fixed match. Why did the NC poll extra votes for their third candidate? They didn’t need to. They polled 31 votes for candidate three, but only 29 would have sufficed—or even 28, since the BJP was fighting for the fourth seat. The questions remain: who cross-voted, whose votes were rejected, and who was hand-in-glove?”
Pertinently, the National Conference (NC) clinched three out of the four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured one. The election was closely contested and marked by intense political maneuvering.
This election was held to fill the four Rajya Sabha seats for Jammu and Kashmir for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370.
This also marks the first time members of the upper house of Parliament have been elected from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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