Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election 2024 | How did the richest candidates perform?

A look at how the richest candidates in the Union territory fared in the Assembly polls held.

Jammu and Kashmir saw the first Assembly election since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 and while exit poll results tilted towards the Congress-National Conference alliance, the results have given a resounding victory to the Farooq Abdullah-led party with Congress in tow. Many key candidates and bigwigs, including two former deputy chief ministers and ex-ministers, lost the maiden assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, as the National Conference (NC) emerged the single largest party with 42 seats.

The Union Territory voted in 3 phases amid heavy security arrangements in place at all voting and now counting centres and now the results are for all of us to see.

Let's take a look at how the richest candidates performed at the Jammu and Kashmir polls.

Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party

Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, who contested from the Channapora from the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party ticket lost the seat to Mushtaq Guroo of NC. Bukhari had declared assets worth Rs 165 crores and is the richest among all others in fray.

Tariq Hameed Karra, Congress

Tariq Hameed Karra, contesting from Srinagar's Central Shalteng on a Congress ticket won a total of 18,933 votes. He is the second richest candidate in fray with declared assets worth Rs 148 crore.

Devender Singh Rana, BJP

Devender Singh Rana, who contested on a ticket by the Bharatiya Janata Party from Jammu's Nagrota won and received 48113 votes. He has declared assets worth Rs 126 crore.

Mushtaq Guroo, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference

Mushtaq Guroo, who was in the fray from Srinagar Channapora on a ticket by Jammu & Kashmir National Conference won with 13717 votes. He had declared assets worth Rs 94 crore.

Abdul Gaffar Sofi, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party

Abdul Gaffar Sofi, contesting on a Peoples Democratic Party ticket from Anantnag West has declared assets worth Rs 66 crore. He lost the seat to NC's Abdul Majeed Bhat.

Kuldeep Raj Dubey, BJP

Kuldeep Raj Dubey, who was in the fray from the Reasi seat on a BJP ticket, won with a total of 39647 votes. He had declared assets worth Rs 59 crore.

Apart from these richest candidates, some of the popular names who are contesting have declared assets which are considerably modest. Omar Abdullah, whos is in the fray from two seats of Budgam and Ganderbal, has declared Rs 55 lakh worth of assets.

Iltija, daughter of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, contesting from Srigufwara-Bijbehara, had declared assets worth Rs 28 lakh.

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