AAP's Election Surprise: Duck In Haryana, First Seat In J&K
NDTV
According to Election Commission data at 1.30 pm the AAP candidate was 4,558 votes ahead of the BJP's Gajay Singh Rana and leading the National Conference's Khalid Najib Suharwardy by 10,000.
The Aam Aadmi Party's Mehraj Malik - who handed his party a first ever election win in Jammu and Kashmir, in local body polls in December 2020 - is now leading the race for the Doda legislative seat, as votes are being counted for the first Assembly election in the former state in a decade.
According to Election Commission data at 1.30 pm the AAP candidate was nearly 5,000 votes ahead of the BJP's Gajay Singh Rana and leading the National Conference's Khalid Najib Suharwardy by nearly 10,000. Twelve of 13 rounds of counting have been completed, according to the poll panel.
The Doda seat was won by the BJP's Shakti Raj in the 2014 election, but has traditionally flipped between the National Conference and the Congress since the first poll in 1962.
