BJP secures 29 seats in Jammu region in the J&K assembly elections, with nearly 26% vote share but fails to form a government. Significant winners include Shagun Parihar and Shakti Raj Parihar, amidst challenges from Pakistan-backed terrorism and violence affecting various constituencies.

As per the election commission data, the early morning trends showed the Congress-NC alliance leading in 13 seats while the BJP was also leading in 13 seats. PDP which according to pollsters could emerge as a kingmaker in case of a hung assembly was leading on 1 seat.

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appeared on course for a surprise win on Tuesday in polls in the northern state of Haryana, but was trailing the opposition in the first elections in a decade in troubled Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir.

This was also the first assembly election to be held since the federal government revoked the region's autonomy and changed the former state into a federally governed territory of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.

The BJP is in the lead in the state of Haryana which borders the capital Delhi, but trails in the federal territories of Jammu and Kashmir, which are seeing their first election results in a decade. The first local elections in India since Mr Modi’s party lost its outright majority in parliament,

Opposition parties seeking the restoration of autonomy in volatile Indian-administered Kashmir have edged out the party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the first regional election since New Delhi imposed direct rule five years ago.

In Jammu Kashmir, where elections assembly election were held for the first time since the the collapse of the PDP-BJP regime on June 20, 2018, and the subsequent abrogation of Ar

PM Narendra Modi accused Congress and its allies of joining international conspiracies to destabilize India and tarnish its institutions. He claimed Congress sought to divide the nation and undermine democracy.