Jammu, Feb. 24 -- The five-year tenure of the first-ever District Development Councils (DDCs) in Jammu and Kashmir formally ended on Monday, leaving the Union Territory without any elected representation across its three-tier Panchayati Raj system.
The DDC elections were conducted for the first time in November-December 2020, marking the completion of the three-tier grassroots democratic structure in the Union Territory after the reorganisation of the erstwhile state in 2019. The councils were formally constituted through a government notification issued on February 25, 2021, and their term concluded on February 24, 2026.
In the maiden DDC polls, the erstwhile People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) secured 110 of the total 280 se...