The counting for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections is going on and as per the latest data by Election Commission of India, the JKNC led by Omar Abdullah is leading in 41 seats.
29-year-old Shagun Parihar from BJP has won the Kishtwar assembly seat by 521 votes. Shagun Parihar is doing her Phd in Electronics and this is her first election. She defeated her nearest rival Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo from the JKNC.
Shagun Parihar’s father Ajeet Parihar and her uncle Anil Parihar who was a senior leader in BJP, were killed by terrorists on November 1, 2018. While campaigning for elections, Shagun had asserted that the votes for her will not be for her family, but for every family that has suffered losses due to terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
