The National Conference-Congress combine swept the election to the 26-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council-Kargil, bagging 22 seats, in the first ever polls held since Ladakh was carved out as a Union Territory (UT) in 2019, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to win only two seats.
The NC, which is a part of the pan-India Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), won 12 seats, while the Congress bagged 10 seats. The INDIA partners lost to the BJP in one of the seats where they fielded candidates against each other. Independent candidates won two seats.
During the campaigning, the NC pitched the election as a referendum on the Centre’s actions on August 5, 2019, when Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional position was ended and the State split into two Union Territories.
