National Conference (NC) leader Tanvir Sadiq won the Zadibal Assembly constituency in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.
According to the Election Commission website, he won by 16,173 votes, defeating the People’s Conference’s Abid Hussain Ansari.
Sadiq said that he will raise the people’s voice in the Assembly.
“I am thankful to the people of Jammu and Kashmir for giving the mandate to me. I assure them that I will raise their voice in the Assembly. I am happy with the way the mandate has been given to the National Conference,” Sadiq told the reporters.
According to the latest update from the Election Commission website, the candidates of the NC-Congress alliance are either leading or have won 48 seats of the total 90.
The BJP candidates are leading or have won 29 seats.
Meanwhile, as the latest trends in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly vote counting showed the National Conference-Congress alliance leading more than half of the seats, the NC chief Farooq Abdullah appeared at the balcony of his house here to greet his supporters displaying a show of strength.
The voting results decide the electoral fate of several former ministers including Tara Chand, Muzaffar Baig, Raman Bhalla, Basharat Bukha along with Omar Abdullah, Ravinder Raina, Yousuf Tarigami and several others.
Jammu and Kashmir Congress Chief Tariq Hameed Karra said that the final results would be accordingly and further added that the alliance partners would have to sit and formulate on how the power sharing has to be done.(ANI)
