Srinagar : Nearly 78 per cent of electorate on Wednesday voted in the elections to Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council- Kargil (LAHDC-K).
Officials said voters including women turned up in large numbers to exercise their franchise in the district. Long queues of enthusiastic voters were seen outside most of the polling stations.b This was the first-ever civic elections in Kargil district since Ladakh was carved out of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019 as a separate Union territory. In these polls, the BJP is up against a united opposition of Congress and National Conference on 26 seats of the 30-member Council. 85 candidates were contesting the polls, with 22 representing the Congress, 17 from the NC, 17 from the BJP, four from the Aam Aadmi Party and 24 Independent candidates.
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