Ladakh-Leh council polls: BJP takes home 12, Congress gets 6, independent 2 so far

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has received 12 seats, adopted by the Congress with six wins and independents two out of the 26 up for grabs within the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC)-Leh elections on Monday afternoon.

The outcomes of six different seats are but to be declared.

“By 2.26 pm, the BJP had won 10 seats. It was followed by the Congress and independents two each, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was yet to open its account. There are a total of 26 constituencies and the results of 12 are yet to be announced,” officers mentioned.

BJP’s Ghulam Mehdi received the Turtuk seat by defeating unbiased candidate Ghulam Hussain by a margin of 367 votes. Kunzang Lotus of the BJP received the Hundar seat by defeating the Congress candidate Stanzin Chotar by a margin of 420 votes.

BJP’s Tsering Angchuk received the Diskit seat by defeating the Congress candidate Tsewang Rigzin by a margin of 570 votes.

BJP’s Rigzen Lundup received the Tegar seat by defeating the Congress’s Jigmet Stobgais by a margin of 416 votes.

The BJP additionally received the Panamik and Tangtse seats by snug margins.

However, the Chushul seat was received by unbiased candidate Konchok Stanzin, who defeated BJP’s Konchok Tsepel by 309 votes.

The BJP additionally received the Kungyam, Korzok, Martselang and Thiksay seats.

The Congress wrested Igoo and Sakti seats by a slender margin of 20 and 79 votes from the BJP and AAP candidates, respectively.

The BJP has managed to comb all of the 5 seats of the Nubra valley, which has a big Muslim inhabitants.

The council, which has 30 seats, contains 4 nominated members.

The BJP and the Congress had contested all of the 26 seats, whereas the AAP had put up candidates in 19 seats. Altogether, 23 candidates have been additionally within the electoral fray.

Residents of Leh have been demanding constitutional safeguards beneath the sixth schedule of the Constitution.

Chering Dorjay, a former BJP minister and ex-president of the celebration’s Ladakh unit, had cautioned the Centre on September 28 a couple of sustained marketing campaign in case the Apex Body of People’s Movement, an apolitical physique, was hoodwinked about its long-pending calls for.

The physique has former BJP Member of Parliament (MP), Thupstan Chhewang, Dorjay, Rinpoche Nawang Chamba Stanzin, the pinnacle of Thiksey monastery, and Nawang Rigzin Jora, a former minister, because it’s members. It has been demanding constitutional safeguards beneath the sixth schedule of the Constitution to Ladakh on the traces of the north-eastern states.

The umbrella group contains political events and spiritual organisations and the omnipotent Leh-based Ladakh Buddhist Association.

The safeguards may also assure extra tooth to the 2 hill improvement councils of Leh and Kargil with legislative powers.

Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah had given an ultimatum to a delegation, which later withdrew its name to boycott the council polls.

Chhewang had resigned from his publish and first membership of the BJP in November 2018 after the Centre didn’t confer on the union territory (UT) standing to the Ladakh area and different guarantees made by the ruling BJP within the run as much as the 2014 parliamentary elections.