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First time after 2009 Cong takes lead in Hindu-majority assembly segments
6/5/2024 11:16:16 PM
Early Times Report

Jammu, June 5: Although the ruling BJP has retained both the Lok Sabha seats of Jammu province, the overall result in two Parliamentary segments is a warning signal for the Saffron Party.
First time since 2009 Congress has taken a lead in three Hindu majority assembly segments of the Jammu region and these segments are considered “citadels” of the BJP.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the then-Congress candidate in Jammu Lok Sabha Madan Lal Sharma had got the lead on eight Hindu-majority assembly segments.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha and Parliament elections, Congress candidates failed to get the lead on any Hindu-majority assembly segments of Jammu and Kashmir. The same was the situation in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
This time despite losing the seat by a margin of 1,35, 498 votes, Raman Bhalla broke the winning streak of the BJP in Hindu-dominated assembly segments by taking the lead in RS Pura-Jammu South and Suchetgarh assembly segments.
On R S Pura-Jammu-South, which was earlier part of the Gandhi Nagar assembly segment, Bhalla got 44162 votes while Jugal Kishore Sharma secured 37798 votes.
Similarly, Bhalla secured 42248 votes in the Suchetgarh assembly segment while Sharma got 37442 votes.
Important to mention here that in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Jugal Kishore Sharma got 38998 votes on this assembly segment and Bhalla secured 9835.
Notably
In the 2009 LS polls , the then-Congress candidate in Jammu Madan Lal Sharma had got the lead on eight Hindu-majority assembly segments.
In the 2014 Parliament elections, Congress candidates failed to get the lead on any Hindu-majority assembly segments . The same was the situation in 2019.
This time despite losing the Jammu seat, Raman Bhalla broke the winning streak of the BJP in Hindu-dominated assembly segments by taking the lead in RS Pura-Jammu South and Suchetgarh assembly segments.
In R S Pura-Jammu-South Bhalla got 44162 votes while Jugal Kishore Sharma secured 37798 votes.
he Suchetgarh assembly segment is a stronghold of the BJP where the party has never lost elections except in 2002.
Not only in rural constituencies, Raman Bhalla secured almost equal votes in the newly carved urban constituency of Bahu comprising post localities of Gandhi Nagar, Trikuta Nagar, Channi Himmat, etc. Jugal Kishore Sharma secured 37702 votes in this assembly segment and Raman Bhalla got 36156.
The contest was also tough in the Ramgarh (reserved) constituency where Jugal Kishore Sharma got 32557 votes while Bhalla secured 30929.
In the Samba assembly segment, another stronghold of the BJP, Jugal Kishore’s lead reduced to 15,114 from 39,421 in 2019.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Jugal Kishore Sharma had secured 50538 votes and Raman Bhalla 11117. This time Sharma’s vote came down to 39670 while Bhalla’s vote increased to 24566.
The statistic is the same in the Jammu West Assembly segment, another citadel of the BJP. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Jugal Kishore Sharma had secured 81209 votes while Raman Bhalla got only 15081 votes and the lead was 66128.
This time Jugal Kishore Sharma got 42612 votes and his rival Raman Bhalla 21734 votes. The lead of 66128 votes in 2019 was reduced to 20882 in 2024.
In the Bishnah assembly segment, the BJP got a lead of nearly 40,000 votes in the 2019 elections, and this time the victory margin has reduced to just 4736 votes.
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