The National Conference is leading on three Lok Sabha seatsin Jammu and Kashmir, while the BJP has opened huge leads in two constituenciesof the state.
Former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti istrailing at the third spot in the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat, where the NC’sHasnain Masoodi is leading and Congress state president G A Mir is in secondplace.
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah is leading by48,000 votes over the PDP’s Aga Mohsin.
Union minister and BJP leader Jitendra Singh is leading byover 2.37 lakh votes over Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh in Udhampurconstituency. BJP’s Jugal Kishore is leading by over 1.43 lakh votes againstRaman Bhalla of the Congress from the Jammu seat.
In Ladakh constituency, journalist-turned-politician SajjadHussain and the BJP’s J T Namgyal have exchanged leads several times since thecounting began. Namgyal is leading by a margin of over 2,000 votes at the endof the latest round of counting.
In north Kashmir’s Baramulla constituency, NC candidateMohammad Akbar Lone is leading by a margin of 15,600 votes against PeoplesConference’s Raja Aijaz Ali. Former MLA and controversial Kashmiri politicianSheikh Abdul Rashid is in the third place.
The BJP had won three seats, two in Jammu and the Ladakh seat,in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, while thew PDP had swept all three seats in theValley. However, Abdullah had won the Lok Sabha bypoll to the Srinagar seat in2017.