The National Conference on Friday secured three Rajya Sabha seats, while the BJP bagged one as the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly voted to fill four vacant Rajya Sabha seats on Friday.

The NC, the Union Territory’s ruling party, will send its senior leader from Kupwara, Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan, to Rajya Sabha alongside former legislator Sajad Kichloo and party treasurer Shammi Oberoi. The BJP ’s J&K unit chief Sat Sharma was the fourth to be elected to the Upper House from the UT.

The NC’s win was the result of its own numbers in the J&K House, amplified by support from Congress, the PDP and Independents elected in last year’s Assembly election. The fourth Rajya Sabha seat had remained contentious up to the last minute, but the BJP pulled through, defeating NC’s Imran Nabi Dar.

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