PDP youth leader Waheed Para wins from Pulwama seat by 24,716 votes

Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Ur Rehman Para has comfortably won the South Kashmir’s Pulwama constituency in the assembly election. As per the ECI results, Para secured a total number of 24,716 votes.

Para was pitted against National Conference (NC) leader and former minister Mohammad Khalil Band, who was once a prominent figure in the PDP.
The constituency has been a stronghold of the PDP since 2022, but this time, the National Conference made significant efforts to wrest control from them.

Para, known as a promising youth leader of the PDP, made his entry into electoral politics in 2020 while in custody of the National Investigation Agency for alleged links to militants.

Despite his incarceration, he won the District Development Council (DDC) elections from Pulwama, defeating BJP candidate Sajad Ahmad Raina