Re-Polling On 2 J&K Local Body Seats. Reason: Pakistan Nationals Contested

In Drugmulla and Hajin, two Pakistani nationals managed to contest the DDC election in December 2020.

Re-polling will be held for two district development council seats in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday after it was found that Pakistani nationals had contested. The polls had been held two years ago.  

Drugmulla in Kupwara district and Hajin in Banidpora district are reserved for women. In both seats, two Pakistani nationals managed to contest the DDC election in December 2020.

But hours before the results were to be declared, complaints about the disputed nationality of Somia Sadaf and Shazia Begum forced election authorities to withhold poll results.

After a probe, the state Election Commission declared the elections null and void. Both women were found to be residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). They had married two former militants and illegally entered Kashmir with their spouses as part of the government's rehabilitation policy for surrendered militants in 2010.