In Budgam bypoll, the PDP capitalised on JKNC’s estranged MP, Aga Ruhullah’s refusal to back his party’s candidate, turning NC’s internal rift into momentum that mobilised voters, fuelled anti-incumbency, and delivered a decisive victory, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

The outcome of the byelection from Budgam has triggered one of the most dramatic political shifts that the town has seen in decades. The victory of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)’s Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi, over the ruling Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC)’s Aga Syed Mahmood Al-Mosavi, has brought to an end nearly five decades of JKNC’s near-unbroken hold on the central Kashmir seat. Necessitated by Omar Abdullah’s decision to retain Ganderbal aft

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