India, Oct. 25 -- A political firestorm erupted in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday after the Rajya Sabha elections for four seats, with People's Conference (PC) chief Sajad Lone alleging that the UT's ruling National Conference (NC) "gifted" seven votes to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), calling the exercise a "fixed match".

The comments came after in the Rajya Sabha elections, held for the first time in J&K after it became a Union Territory in 2019, the NC secured wins on three seats while the BJP managed one too.

"You (NC) have clearly gifted seven members to the BJP. It was a fixed match," Lone said at a press conference in Srinagar.

Elections for four seats were conducted in three separate notifications. Under the third notificatio...