SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2014 (PAGE 10) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU From page 1 BJP scripts new electoral history, wins all 3 seats in Jammu, Ladakh JAMMU-POONCH LOK SABHA SEAT the State. However, the results Independent candidate in 2004. tively. were just reverse with the Alliance Chhewang polled 31111 votes Surprisingly, Udhampur and losing all six seats. while his nearest rival, Ghulam Ramnagar Assembly segments Widely attributed to Narendra Raza, a Congress rebel, who was in are held by NPP leaders Modi wave, the BJP managed to the fray as Independent candidate, (Mankotia and Harshdev Singh, wrest Jammu-Poonch and who polled 31075 votes. Another former Minister). Despite this, Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seats Independent candidate Syed NPP supremo Prof Bhim Singh from the Congress after 15 years as Mohammad Kazim Sabri finished fared badly securing just 10805 the party had last time won the two third with 28,234 votes while votes in Ramnagar and 4483 in seats in 1999 elections when Atal Congress candidate Tsering Udhampur. In Chenani Assembly Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Samphel finished at the bottom segment, which Bhim Singh had Minister. The BJP had never won polling 26,402 votes. NOTA got represented in 1983 and NPP in Ladakh seat before though it had 1207. 2002, Singh polled only 3004 votes. held Udhampur seat for three con- Raza was backed by powerful In 2009 Parliamentary election, secutive terms in 1996, 1998 and Imam Khomeini Memorial Trust Bhim Singh had secured about 1999 and Jammu seat for two terms (IKMT) while Sabri had the sup- 69,400 votes while in today's results, in 1998 and 1999. port of another major religious he polled just 25,312 votes notwith- Significantly, the Congress fared organisation Islamiya School standing an increase of about 27 per badly in the Assembly segments Kargil (ISK). Prominent NC lead- cent voter turnout in present election. held by prominent Congress ers including Chief Minister's In Kathua district, it were Ministers including Deputy Chief Advisor Qamar Ali Akhoon, MLA Kathua Main and Hiranagar Minister Tara Chand (Chhamb), Kargil and Minister for Science and Assembly constituencies, held by PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Technology, MLA Zanskar, had Independent and NC ally Charanjit Sham Lal Sharma (Akhnoor), openly backed the candidature of Singh Jasrotia and BJP respectively, Housing Minister Raman Bhalla Sabri while former Minister Haji which gave Jitendera Singh huge (Gandhi Nagar), Urban Nissar Ali and CEC LAHDC leads of about 45,000 and 40,000 Development Minister Rigzin Jora Kargil, Asgar Ali Karblaie were votes respectively. In Congress (Leh) and Cooperatives Minister Dr supporting Raza. Minister held Dr Manohar Lal Manohar Lal Sharma (Billawar). In Raza led the counting trends Sharma's Billawar constituency, BJP Marh constituency also, which is till the last two rounds when for- led by about 24,000 votes. In BJP represented by BJP but from where tunes fluctuated in favour of held Basohli and Bani segments, the Planning Minister Ajay Sadhotra Chhewang as all four candidates BJP candidate led by 28,000 and hailed, the Congress was defeated were involved in neck-to-neck 2500 votes respectively. with a huge margin. race. Raza called for recounting Udhampur seat was represented However, it was in Doda, of postal ballots, a request to by the Congress MP Choudhary Lal Kishtwar, Banihal and Reasi districts which the District Election Singh for two consecutive terms of that NC-Congress Ministers man- Authorities agreed. Earlier, 2004 and 2009. He was denied man- aged to secure leads for Azad in their Chhewang had won the seat by date by the party high command as a UDHAMPUR-DODA LOK SABHA SEAT segments. They included R&B 34 votes while after re-counting number of senior Congress leaders Minister Abdul Mujeed Wani his margin increase by two more had lobbied against him in New (Doda), Minister for Home Sajjad votes and he was declared winner Delhi and wanted mandate for Azad. Ahmed Kitchloo (Kishtwar), by 36 votes. Lal Singh had defeated BJP's Minister for Revenue Aijaz Khan In Leh Assembly segment held Nirmal Singh by about 13,500 votes (Gool-Arnas) and Minister for by Congress Minister Rigzin Jora, in 2009 election. Technical Education Viqar Rasool BJP polled 23,471 votes while In Jammu-Poonch (Banihal). Congress got 18,814. Parliamentary constituency, which Out of 37 Assembly segments It was, however, BJP's Dr state party chief Jugal Kishore in Jammu region, which com- Jitendera Singh, who turned out to Sharma won by a whopping margin prised two Lok Sabha seats of be giant killed defeating big gun of of over 2.57 lakh votes, the BJP led Jammu-Poonch and Udhampur- the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad, a in 15 Assembly segments including Doda Lok Sabha seats, the BJP several times Union Minister and all those held by the Congress had leads in 24 segments (15 in Chief Minister of Jammu and Ministers. The Congress led in just Jammu seat and nine in Kashmir for over two and a half two segments and PDP in two. The Udhampur seat) while Congress years from November 2005 to July Jammu seat was based on 20 could gain leads only in 11 seg- 2008 by over 60,000 votes. Assembly seats. ments (eight in Udhampur seat Azad, a Rajya Sabha member Madan Lal Sharma had won the and three in Jammu constituen- till April 2015, was making first seat in 2004 and 2009 before losing cy). The PDP led in two Assembly attempt to enter Lok Sabha from his Ladakh MPs so far segments. In Ladakh seat, BJP led home State though he had been Year Name Party in prestigious Leh Assembly seg- elected to Rajya Sabha from here 1967 Koushak Bakula Cong Winners of Jammu Winners of Udhampur 1971 Koushak Bakula Cong seat so far seat so far 1977 Parvati Devi Cong 1967: Inder Jit Malhotra, INC 1967: Karan Singh, INC (U) 1980 P Namgyal Cong 1971: Inder Jit Malhotra, INC 1971: Karan Singh, NC (U) 1984 P Namgayal Cong 1977: Thakur Baldev Singh, Indp. 1977: Karan Singh, INC (U) 1989 Ghulan Hassan 1980: Girdhari Lal Dogra, INC (I) 1980: Karan Singh INC (U) Commander Independent 1984: Janak Rai Gupta, INC 1984: G.L. Dogra, INC 1996 P Namgayal Cong 1989: Janak Rai Gupta, INC 1987: Ayub Khan, INC 1998 Syed Hussain NC 1996: Mangat Ram Sharma, INC 1989: Dharam Pal Sharma, INC 1999 Hassan Khan NC 1998: Vishno Datt Sharma, BJP 1996: Chaman Lal Gupta, BJP 2004 Thupstan Independent 1999: Vishno Datt Sharma, BJP 1998: Chaman Lal Gupta, BJP Chhewang 2002: Chowdhary Talib Hussain, NC 1999: Chaman Lal Gupta, BJP 2009 Ghulam Hassan Independent 2004: Madan Lal Sharma, Indian NC 2004: Chaudhary Lal Singh, INC Khan 2009: Madan Lal Sharma, Indian NC 2009: Chaudhary Lal Singh, INC 2014 Thupstan 2014: Jugal Kishore Sharma, BJP 2014: Dr Jitendra Singh, BJP Chhewang BJP BARAMULLA LOK SABHA SEAT ment held by Jora with about earlier also. He had been elected to 2002 by-election but failed to make 5000 votes. Lok Sabha from Washim in a hat-trick. He had defeated BJP's Two times Congress MP Maharashtra in 1980 and 1984. Leela Karan Sharma by about 1.27 Madan Lal Sharma failed to lead However, Dr Singh, riding high lakh votes in last election. in his home town of Akhnoor, on Modi wave and his own charis- In Deputy Chief Minister Tara which is represented by his ma of being an intellectual and pro- Chand's Assembly segment Minister brother Sham Lal Jammu leader, an image he devel- Chhamb and neighbouring Sharma and trailed to BJP by oped during 2008 Amarnath land Akhnoor held by Madan Lal over 9000 votes. row agitation defeated Azad with an Sharma's brother and PHE BJP also led in Leh Assembly impressive margin. Minister Sham Lal Sharma, BJP segment. Dr Singh was contesting first had a lead of about 11,000 votes It may be mentioned here that election of his brief political career each. In Housing Minister Raman NC-Congress, the coalition partners as he had joined BJP only four Bhalla's Gandhi Nagar seat, Jugal in the Government, were contesting years back after resigning as got healthy lead of over 36,000 Lok Sabha elections in alliance with Professor in Medicines Department votes. Jammu West held by BJP each other like 2009. Congress was of the GMC Jammu. rebel Prof Chaman Lal Gupta, contesting three seats of Jammu, However, Azad got impressive BJP got highest lead of about Udhampur and Ladakh while NC support in all six Assembly seg- 55,000 votes over Congress. was contesting three seats of the ments of erstwhile Doda district In Jammu East held by Ashok Kashmir Valley. and two constituencies of Reasi dis- Khajuria, BJP led by about 18,000 BJP State president Jugal trict-Gool-Arnas and Gulabgarh but votes. In NPP held Samba, BJP led Kishore Sharma recorded highest fared very badly in five Assembly by about 23,000 votes while in victory margin of 2,57,280 in segments of Kathua district, three in neighbouring Vijaypur, the BJP lead Jammu-Poonch Parliamentary con- Udhampur district and Reasi prop- was over 22,000 votes. stituency wresting Jammu-Poonch er, leading to his defeat. In Nagrota segment, held by Lok Sabha seat from the Congress In Kishtwar segment, Azad Jugal Kishore Sharma for two terms, after three elections to Lok Sabha had lead of about 6,000 votes BJP had a slender lead of just about 2002 (by-election, which was won while in Inderwal constituency, 5000 votes. In Bishnah, the BJP had by NC) and 2004 and 2009.