- By Shubham Bajpai
- Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:26 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The counting for the four Rajya Sabha seats of Jammu and Kashmir has concluded and the ruling National Conference (NC) has won three seats. The main opposition party in the UT, the BJP, has also won a seat in the Upper House of Parliament.
JKNC senior leader Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan has been elected to the Rajya Sabha by 58 votes. Among other NC leaders elected to the Upper House are Sajad Kichloo and Shammi Oberoi.
J&K BJP president Satish Paul Sharma has been elected to the fourth seat by securing 32 votes. He defeated NC's Imran Nisar by 10 votes. Nisar polled 22 votes.
The voting for the four seats was held today, and all 86 MLAs cast their votes. The voting was scheduled to be concluded by 4:00 pm.
Following this, the counting of votes began at 5:00 PM. Reacting to the results, the Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference (JKPC) chief and MLA Sajjad Gani Lone called it a fixed match.
"So the BJP wins the fourth seat. As predicted -- a fixed match; Axis of the evil -- NC and BJP," Lone said in a post on X. "Thank God I abstained. Imagine what my plight would have been. Now mathematically proven that it was a fixed match.
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"Why did the NC poll extra votes for candidate three. They didn't need to. They polled 31 votes for candidate three. Only 29 votes would have sufficed, even 28, because the BJP was fighting for seat four. Who cross-voted? Whose votes were rejected? Who was hand in glove?" Lone asked.
(With PTI Inputs)