SRINAGAR: Former Rajya Sabha member and Jammu and Kashmir PDP Candidate Mohammad Fayaz Mir won the Kupwara Assembly seat and defeated NC’s Nasir Aslam Wani and JKPC’s Sajad Gani Lone.
People’s Conference president Sajad Gani Lone, who is also in the fray from this seat apart from contesting from the Handwara seat, was a distant third, trailing Fayaz by more than 19,000 votes.
Wani has secured 17,513 votes.
