KUNZER: Aasha Jee is the first Kashmiri Pandit woman in the Muslim dominated Kashmir valley to be elected as a Panch in the J&K panchayat polls.
Pandits, a minority community in Kashmir, were displaced after the eruption of violent insurgency against India in 1989-90. However, Aasha's family is one of the four that stayed back in her village Wussan, Kunzer block on Srinagar-Gulmarg road.
Aasha defeated her lone rival, Sarwa Begum, a Kashmiri Muslim woman, by 11 votes in the seventh phase of polling on Sunday. Aasha bagged 55 votes while Sarwa got 42 votes.
Living with her husband Radha Krishan and two sons at Wussan , Aasha said: "Muslim brethren of the village voted for me and I will try to come up to their expectations provided the state government delegates powers to panchayats under 74th amendment to the constitution."
Pandits, a minority community in Kashmir, were displaced after the eruption of violent insurgency against India in 1989-90. However, Aasha's family is one of the four that stayed back in her village Wussan, Kunzer block on Srinagar-Gulmarg road.
Aasha defeated her lone rival, Sarwa Begum, a Kashmiri Muslim woman, by 11 votes in the seventh phase of polling on Sunday. Aasha bagged 55 votes while Sarwa got 42 votes.
Living with her husband Radha Krishan and two sons at Wussan , Aasha said: "Muslim brethren of the village voted for me and I will try to come up to their expectations provided the state government delegates powers to panchayats under 74th amendment to the constitution."
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