M Saleem Pandit, 10 May, 2011
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.
(Courtesy : http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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