Ravinder Raina of BJP leading in Nowshera constituency in Jammu and Kashmir

Ravinder Raina, the BJP president of Jammu and Kashmir was leading from Rajouri district's Nowshera constituency in the assembly election, the results of which are being announced on Tuesday, October 8.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Naushera Assembly constituency Ravinder Raina shows his ink-marked finger after casting his vote for the second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, at Naushera in Rajouri on Wednesday. (ANI )

As initial trends began, Raina's closest rival was National Conference's Surinder Choudhary, whom he had defeated in the 2014 assembly elections by over 95,000 votes.