Congress-National Conference Takes Lead Over BJP In Race For J&K
NDTV
Exit polls have predicted a hung Assembly, with neither the BJP nor the Congress-National Conference alliance expected to cross the majority mark of 46.
Counting for the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election - the first since Article 370 was scrapped in August 2019 and the first since the 2014 poll - began 8 am.
In very early leads (counting of postal ballots), the Congress-National Conference alliance has taken a big lead in what was to supposed to be a tight race. At 9 am the Congress-NC was ahead in 29 seats and the BJP in 20. The People's Democratic Party of ex Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was leading in six and independent candidates were in the pole seat in three seats.
The race to control the former state's 95 Assembly seats - of which five have been nominated by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in a controversial move - is predicted to be a close one.
