Brandnew Delhi:
It used to be a bittersweet month for the Aam Aadmi Birthday party. Because the Election Fee figures indicated that it won’t win even a unmarried seat in Haryana, the birthday celebration discovered its silver lining in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Aam Aadmi Birthday party or AAP registered its first victory in meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir the place its candidate Mehraj Malik defeated his upcoming rival from the BJP within the Doda constituency by way of a margin of four,538 votes.
To congratulate Mr Malik, AAP prominent Arvind Kejriwal video referred to as him. “The workers are very happy that now we have an AAP MLA in Jammu and Kashmir,” he mentioned.
AAP, in energy in Delhi and Punjab, additionally has MLAs in Gujarat and Goa. In Jammu and Kashmir, it had fielded seven applicants out of 90 meeting areas.
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Mr Kejriwal praised Mr Malik for “doing good work” and mentioned, “People are with you”.
Mehraj Malik thanked him and in addition prolonged him a call for participation to talk over with Kashmir on Thursday. “On 10th at 2 pm, we will wait for you. The public here will wait for you.”
The Delhi Leading Minister authorized his invitation and promised to talk over with on October 10. “I will come. I will come for sure on the 10th,” he mentioned.
The jubilant chief additionally asked Mr Kejriwal to stick at the sequence as he accrued his certificates from the returning officer.
Mr Malik, a District Construction Council (DDC) member, polled 23,228 votes towards BJP’s Gajay Singh Rana’s 18,690 votes. Nationwide Convention chief and previous minister Khalid Najib Suharwardy and DPAP chief Abdul Majid Wani were given 13,334 and 10,027 votes, respectively. Congress candidate Sheikh Riaz Ahmad used to be driven to the 5th park having fix 4,170 votes.
He unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections from Udhampur constituency early this week.
In Jammu and Kashmir, which had its first meeting elections since 2014, the alliance of the Nationwide Convention (NC) and Congress is tipped to mode the federal government.
NC and Congress had received 47 of 90 seats within the meeting, an unassailable govern over BJP’s 27, the Election Fee knowledge confirmed. The midway mark is 46.