With the counting currently underway, the updated trends by the Election Commission of India released at 11:40 AM on Tuesday have indicated that in Jammu and Kashmir, the Jammu Kashmir National Conference and Congress alliance are leading with 52 seats.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading with 26 seats.

As per the election commission data between 3-5 rounds of counting has been completed in most of the 90 constituencies in the region.

The voting results decide the electoral fate of several former ministers including Tara Chand, Muzaffar Baig, Raman Bhalla, Basharat Bukha along with Omar Abdullah, Ravinder Raina, Yousuf Tarigami and several others.

Jammu and Kashmir Congress Chief Tariq Hameed Karra said that the final results would be accordingly and further added that the alliance partners would have to sit and formulate on how the power sharing has to be done.

Karra is leading from the Central Shalteng Assembly constituency, by a margin of 10,263 votes, after round 9/13 of counting as per the latest EC data at 11:56 AM.
(ANI)