BUDGAM, Nov 14: National Conference (NC) tasted its first-ever electoral defeat in the Budgam assembly segment of Jammu and Kashmir as the opposition PDP’s Aga Syed Muntazir wrested the seat from the ruling party in the bypolls.

Muntazir’s victory in the polls takes the PDP’s tally in the J-K legislative assembly to four.

This is the first time that the NC has lost in its bastion of Budgam, in central Kashmir, since 1957, the first elections for the legislative assembly.

The NC has won every assembly election in Budgam whenever it has fielded a candidate from the Shia-dominated segment. The only time the seat was not represented by the NC was in 1972 when the party had boycotted the polls across J-K.

The bypoll in the constituency was necessitated after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah vac

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