In the discussions on today's events there is one interesting
statistic from the (erstwhile!) state of Jammu & Kashmir that is
easily overlooked.
In Lok Sabha 2019 elections, Farooq Abdulla's
National Conference bagged less than 8% of the votes of people of
J&K. Mehbooba Mufti's PDP got less than 3% of the votes. BJP bagged
whopping 46% of all the votes polled in the state. BJP's candidate from
Jammu, Jugal Kishore alone bagged over 8.5 lakh votes, which is 3 times
the total votes bagged by all National
Conference candidates put together (~2.8 lakhs), and 7 times more than
the votes bagged by all PDP candidates put together (~1.2 lakhs)!
(Source: Election Commission of India's official website http://eciresults.nic.in).
In a democracy the best way to judge the mood of the people is through
elections. And LS 2019 results from Jammu & Kashmir clearly show
that the Muftis and the Abdullahs no longer represent the voice of the
people of the state. With BJP, which had promised to revoke Article 370,
winning close to half of the votes in the state, no one can argue that
people of Jammu & Kashmir were opposed to abrogation of Article 370
& 35A.
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