Jammu Kashmir Election Results 2024: Syama Prasad Mookerjee and the BJP’s ‘special connect’ with J&K | Explained News
J&K Election Results 2024: While the first election in Jammu and Kashmir since the constitutional changes of 2019 has gone the way of the National Conference-Congress alliance, the BJP could win the largest share of votes among all parties, and the majority of seats in the Jammu region. At 3 pm on Tuesday, the BJP was leading at 12 seats and had won at 17, all in the Jammu region, which has 43 of the 90 seats for which elections have been held. (Another five seats in the Assembly will be filled by nomination.) The BJP’s vote share stood at 25.68%, ahead of the National Conference’s 23.43%. Independents and others had won 24.77% of the vote. The BJP will view its success as an affirmation of what it sees as an inalienable connection between the erstwhile state and its own inception as a party. To BJP leaders, this link is manifest most clearly in the person of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, co-founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), whom the BJP describes on its website …