SRINAGAR: The Congress has made a clean sweep by winning all the 13 wards in Leh Municipal Committee (LMC) while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to make inroads into the committee.
According to reports the 13 Congress candidates, contesting ULB polls for LMC, were declared winners.
They said that the BJP failed to open its account in the LMC.
Meanwhile, Congress has won 5 wards of the Kargil municipal committee while Independent candidates have won eight wards in the just concluded polls.
An official said that the Congress party candidates were declared successful in five wards while Independents won eight wards.
Unprecedented security arrangements have been made in and around the counting centres and only those having valid passes issued by the authorities, are allowed to enter there.
The elections did not see participation by two main regional parties, National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) besides Communist Party of India (M), who boycotted the ULB polls in Jammu and Kashmir, alleging that state and Central governments failed to clear their stand on Article 35 A. (PTK)
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