What it shows that people in his constituence realized that Sajjad had his own agenda to carry to parliament and perhaps he was not in sync with his people !!!!!!
Which brings us back to the original point...since when does Sajjad Lone personify the entire Kashmiri nationalist movement as a whole? The man is a political opportunist and little more...Kashmiri nationalists could care less about him because he has repeatedly indicated that he would "settle" for autonomy without actual indpendence; and the pro-India factions don't like him because of his on again, off again daliances with the APHC and occasional lipservice to independence.
But as an Indian, I can see you really don't have much of a choice but to grasp at straws. When 51% of Kashmiris allegedly came out to vote a couple months back after your government swore up and down that participation in those polls had nothing to do with Kashmir's final status, people like you arrogantly claimed it was a vote for Indian occupation. And now that 70%+ of Kashmiris have rejected the parliamentary polls (as they have in the past), you have no choice but to harp on the defeat of a pseudo-separatist politician.
Specifically talking about Sajjad's constituence .... he got 65,000 votes and there were 400,000 voters cast in this constituency.... Sajjad finsihed third ...... There were a total of 13 candidates for his constituency !!!!!! .....
Specifically talking about New Delhi's darling puppet, Omar Abdullah...
He won 16,519 votes out of a total of 39,818 votes allegedly cast in Ganderbal (41.5%)...not even half of the total votes supposedly cast. And when you take into account the pathetic turnout, it appears only 21.5% of registered voters bothered to vote for him...probably even less in reality once you account for the requisite Indian election tampering and fraud.
What a resounding public mandate.