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DDC Election Results: Former BJP Leader Sham Lal Choudhary Loses Polls By A Slim Margin Of 11 Votes

BJP has emerged as the single largest party in the DDC polls and for the first time has won 3 seats in Kashmir valley.

DDC Elections Results: Former BJP minister Sham Lal Choudhary lost by a razor-thin margin of 11 votes in Suchetgarh constituency of Jammu district in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) election, officials said on Wednesday. The Gupkar alliance led by Farooq Abdullah was leading the tally by winning over 110 out of 280 seats on Wednesday, followed by the BJP, which emerged as the single largest party, bagging 74 seats, including three in the Kashmir Valley for the first time. Also Read|DDC Election Results, J&K: BJP Emerges As Single Largest Party, Wins In Kashmir For First Time, Gupkar Alliance Crosses 100 In Jammu, the BJP won 11 seats, followed by independent candidates who got two seats, while one seat went into the kitty of the National Conference (NC). According to the figures provided by the state election authority (SEA), Sham Lal Choudhary polled 12,958 votes against independent candidate Taranjit Singh, who polled 12,969 votes in the Suchetgarh segment of Jammu district. Choudhary was a cabinet minister in the BJP-PDP coalition government in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. He won assembly elections from Suchetgarh in 2014 and 2008 and is considered to be a powerful leader in the border belt of R S Pura. Singh, a former NC youth leader, contested the DDC polls as an Independent on the slogan of three new farm laws enacted by the BJP-led central government. It garnered farmers' support in the Suchetgarh-R S Pura border belt, which is called the home of the farming community in the Jammu division as the area is known for its Basmati rice.
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