BJP takes Jharkhand, trails behind PDP in Kashmir

But the performance of BJP in Kashmir is the big story of the day with the nationalist party making a big dent in the state where it had less presence. 

 At around 1-30 pm, in Jammu and Kashmir the BJP was leading in 26 seats, gaining about 15 seats in this election, of the total 87 seats, but the PDP emerged as the biggest winner leading in 30 seats. 

 

The National Conference (NC) of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was trailing behind them at 14, losing about 14 seats from the last time. The Congress was leading in 12 only, which is a loss of six seats from the last time.

 

A day ahead of the Assembly Elections result declaration in Jammu and Kashmir, state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had ruled out any tie-up with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or its former ally Congress though after counting it is in no position to bargain. 

In the 2008 Assembly Election, the ruling NC of Omar Abdullah had emerged as the largest party winning 28 seats out of 87 Assembly seats.

PDP was second with 21 seats while the Congress got third spot winning 17 seats, BJP, however, could win only 11 seats last time.