Bureaucrat turned politician and National Conference leader Farooq Shah on Sunday said that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has not only lost the three important Parliament seats in Kashmir but it has virtually been decimated in north Kashmir.
In a statement here Shah said, “National Conference hasemerged as the main contender for the upcoming assembly elections. North Kashmir, once considered as thestronghold of the Ink-pot party, this time rejected the Mehbooba brigade. Theparty has not been able to win even a single assembly segment out of 15constituencies in north Kashmir.”
He said, “The result statistics show a huge revival NC innearly half a dozen segments where PDP had held its feet. Omar Abdullah hasbeen able to revive NC’s base in Gulmarg, Sangrama, Pattan, Sopore, Rafiabad ,Lolab , Bandipora and Kupwara constituencies. The National Conference not only won 9 segments but also came second infour of the remaining six segments which is a huge revival of the party innorth Kashmir.”
He said that in 2014 assembly elections, the PDP had wonseven assembly segments, NC three, PC two and Er Rashid’s AIP one seat.However, in these elections, PDP has lost all the eight segments to NC and ErRashid.
“In Tangamrg constituency the NC has been able to turn thetables and make a spectacular come back getting 8, 900 votes which are nearlythree thousand more than PDP and six thousand more than People’s Conference,”he added.