SRINAGAR: The counting for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections is in progress at 10 counting centres across Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi. Jammu and Kashmir’s two former Chief Ministers’ Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti are trailing in their respective constitutes, early counting trends suggest. Omar is contesting from Baramulla and Mehbooba from newly carved out Anantnag-Rajouri. Both are at No 2.
In Baramulla Engineer Rasheed has almost double the votes that Omar has polled so far. Sajjad Lone is at No 3. The NC leader is locked in a virtual triangular contest for the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat with separatist-turned-mainstream politician Sajad Gani Lone and Rashid alias Engineer Rasheed, a former MLA currently lodged in Tihar jail in a UAPA case.
In Anantnag, Mian Altaf of JKNC is far ahead of Mehbooba Mufti as the Apni Party candidate Zafar Iqbal Manhas is at No3. He has polled more than one lakh votes which is three times more than Mehbooba Mufti.
In Srinagar, JKNC’s Agha Rullah is also ahead of PDP’s Waheed Parra.
In Udhampur and Jammu, BJP candidates are ahead of Congress.
The BJP was leading in the Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission.
BJP’s Jugal Kishore Sharma was leading in the Jammu Lok Sabha constituency while party leader and Union Minister Jitendra Singh in Udhampur.
Besides them, there are 32 candidates in the fray from the seat.
