BJP’s Devyani Rana, daughter of late Devender Rana, wins Nagrota seat

Ziraat Times News Desk

NAGROTA: Devyani Rana of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the Nagrota Assembly seat in a decisive victory, securing 42,183 votes, according to the Election Commission of India.

Rana defeated her nearest rival, Harsh Dev Singh of the Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party, who secured 17,661 votes, marking a  victory margin of 24,522 votes. Shamim Begum of the National Conference finished third with 10,834 votes, while Independent candidate Anil Sharma polled 837 votes.

The win is politically significant for the region and symbolically powerful, as Devyani Rana is the daughter of late political figure Devender Rana, once a close confidant of former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and a key player in Jammu politics before shifting political affiliations in his final years.