Ghulam Nabi Azad relected to Rajya Sabha
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was on Saturday relected as a Rajya Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir while PDP bagged two seats and BJP one in the elections to the Upper House from the state.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was on Saturday relected as a Rajya Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir while PDP bagged two seats and BJP one in the elections to the Upper House from the state.
Besides Azad who was a joint candidate of Congress and National Conference, PDP's Fayaz Ahmed Mir and Nazir Ahmad Laway and Shamsher Singh Manhas have been declared winner in the elections. Both BJP-PDP and National Conference-Congress had fought the elections separately under seat-sharing arrangements. PDP, with 28 seats in the 87-member Assembly, is the single-largest party while BJP has 25 seats. The Assembly has been put under suspended animation. NC and Congress have 15 and 12 seats respectively.