"Hopeful that people support our manifesto": PDP candidate Waheed Ur Rehman Para

New Delhi: Even as the NC-Congress alliance looks set to form the government in JK, People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate from Pulwama, Waheed Ur Rehman Para said that the real challenge lay ahead once the mandate was clear.
Speaking to ANI, Para said "We are hopeful that people will support our manifesto. In the coming few hours, there will be more clarity. Once the mandate is clear, then the real challenge. We will fight for the restoration of Article 370 and the statehood. We have worked hard for the manifesto and we hope people understand that we will fight for the state.
Para is leading by 7.995 votes after 10/12 rounds of counting votes, as per the trends by Election Commission at 12:40 PM.
Meanwhile, the National Conference- Congress alliance is leading in more than half of the seats in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
According to the latest update from the Election Commission website as of 12.45 am, the NC is leading in 43 seats while Congress is leading 7 seats. The halfway mark in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is 45 as the total seats are 90.
The voting results will 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.
Former JK CM Omar Abdullah said that the alliance was in pole position to win and urged the BJP not to play any dirty tricks.
"We have the hope that we will win. The decision made by the voters of J&K, we will get to know by today afternoon. There should be transparency, if people's mandate is against BJP, they shouldn't pull off any tricks. We did alliance so we can win and we are hoping to win," Omar Abdullah said.