Srinagar, Oct 25: The election to the four J&K Rajya Sabha seats held on Friday threw up results on expected lines with the ruling National Conference (NC) securing three seats and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning a solitary seat but the contest was more than about winners and losers.

According to political analysts, the expected results have exposed many political players in the region and cast aspersions even on the NC’s alliance partner, Congress, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), a host of independent legislators, and even the NC itself.

The results with BJP getting 31 votes, three more than its 28 MLAs, on the fourth seat on which its J&K unit President Satpal Sharma was contesting against NC spokesman Imran Nabi Dar, suggest that BJP would have mana

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