{"id":3928,"date":"2025-11-14T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:51:10","slug":"karra-blames-govt-misconduct-for-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/karra-blames-govt-misconduct-for-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Karra blames \u2018Govt misconduct\u2019 for defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Nov 14:\u00a0<\/strong>Hours after BJP and PDP won the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly bypolls on Friday, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President, Tariq Hameed Karra Friday said the outcome in Budgam reflected public anger over \u201cbroken promises\u201d and \u201cgovernment misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karra said there was nothing unexpected about the Nagrota result, noting that the seat was already held by the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no surprising result in that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he described the Budgam outcome as a signal of shifting public sentiment. \u201cThe change that has come in people in Budgam is a matter that needs to be looked into,\u201d he said, adding that voters appeared to be responding to the circumstances in which the seat fell vacant.<\/p>\n<p>The Budgam seat fell vacant after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who had won two seats, retained Ganderbal post 2024 Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>Karra said voters remembered Abdullah\u2019s promise that he would retain the seat where he secured a larger lead. \u201cTheir lead was more from Badgam, so people expressed their anger,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Karra also said that people were reacting to what he described as misconduct by the administration. \u201cPeople are angry about that too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In Budgam, PDP\u2019s Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi defeated National Conference\u2019s Aga Syed Mehmood Al-Mosavi by 4,478 votes, securing 21,576 votes against Al-Mosavi\u2019s 17,098. Voter turnout was around 50%.<\/p>\n<p>In Nagrota, BJP\u2019s Devyani Rana won the bypoll with 42,183 votes, defeating her nearest rival by 24,647 votes. The seat became vacant after the death of BJP MLA Devender Singh Rana, her father, in 2024. Turnout in the constituency was over 75%<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Nov 14:\u00a0Hours after BJP and PDP won the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly bypolls on Friday, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President, Tariq Hameed Karra Friday said the outcome in Budgam reflected public anger over \u201cbroken promises\u201d and \u201cgovernment misconduct.\u201d Karra said there was nothing unexpected about the Nagrota result, noting that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}