SRINAGAR: The redrawn Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency on Monday recorded 36.1% voter turnout, highest after 1996 polls, within the first common election held because the nullification of Article 370. In 1996, it was 40.94%, however fell to 30.06% in 1998.
The electoral battle for the LS seat, comprising 21 meeting segments after delimitation, is a three-cornered contest involving Nationwide Convention’s Aga Ruhullah, who’s backed by Congress; Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP’s Waheed Parra; and Mohammad Ashraf Mir of Altaf Bukhari’s JK Apni Occasion, which is supported by Sajad Lone’s JK Individuals’s Convention.
Though BJP did not area a candidate in any of the three LS seats of Kashmir area for the primary time in three many years, NC and PDP see JK Apni Occasion and JK Individuals’s Convention as “proxies” of the saffron get together.
Meeting phase Chadoora recorded a 46.60% turnout, Chrar-i-Sharief 53.23%, Ganderbal 46.81%, Kangan (ST)-55.55%, Khan Sahib, 48.5%, Pulwama 39.25%, and Shopian 45.04%, EC officers mentioned.
Polls on this constituency, as soon as notorious for intimidation by terror outfits and alleged rigging, drew blended reactions from voters, with Article 370’s nullification and improvement of the area being the deciding elements.
A number of exiled Kashmiri Pandits had been seen awaiting their turns at particular polling cubicles in Jammu. “I’ve voted for our everlasting return to Kashmir valley in an environment of peace and safety,” mentioned Shrikrishan Kaw, in his late 40s, at Jagti camp in Jammu’s Nagrota.
His daughter, Rashi Kaw, first-time voter, mentioned, “I voted to be a part of democracy. I additionally need central govt to chart out the financial empowerment of the exiled group and create job alternatives within the Valley in order that youth are engaged in nation constructing as a substitute of being distracted from the mainstream.”
52,100 Kashmiri migrants are registered as voters in Srinagar seat. EC gave Kashmiri migrants residing at aid camps in Delhi, Jammu, and Udhampur an choice to solid their vote through postal ballots or in individual at 26 designated particular polling cubicles: 21 in Jammu, 4 in Delhi, and 1 in Udhampur.
Kamran Ayub in Srinagar mentioned, “I solid my vote to precise my emotions. Individuals ought to vote to inform the world whether or not they’re pleased with the nullification of Article 370.”
Abdul Qayoom Dar, 60, from Batapora in Rajpora meeting phase, mentioned “We don’t need BJP and its allies to characterize us in Parliament for scrapping particular standing to J&Ok.”
Gulzar Ahmad Dar of Ganderbal mentioned he was backing Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP within the NC bastion. His spouse, Rafiqa Akhtar, mentioned, “NC has accomplished nothing for Ganderbal. For this reason Abdullahs didn’t contest from Srinagar.”
NC chief and ex-CM Farooq Abdullah received the seat in 2019.
A bit of the youth expressed scepticism in regards to the impression of their vote. “No person in my household has ever solid a vote. I do not suppose I’ll both. We don’t need false guarantees,” a first-time voter Gazala Mir mentioned.
(With inputs from Dipak Sprint in New Delhi and Sanjay Khajuria in Jammu)
The electoral battle for the LS seat, comprising 21 meeting segments after delimitation, is a three-cornered contest involving Nationwide Convention’s Aga Ruhullah, who’s backed by Congress; Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP’s Waheed Parra; and Mohammad Ashraf Mir of Altaf Bukhari’s JK Apni Occasion, which is supported by Sajad Lone’s JK Individuals’s Convention.
Though BJP did not area a candidate in any of the three LS seats of Kashmir area for the primary time in three many years, NC and PDP see JK Apni Occasion and JK Individuals’s Convention as “proxies” of the saffron get together.
Meeting phase Chadoora recorded a 46.60% turnout, Chrar-i-Sharief 53.23%, Ganderbal 46.81%, Kangan (ST)-55.55%, Khan Sahib, 48.5%, Pulwama 39.25%, and Shopian 45.04%, EC officers mentioned.
Polls on this constituency, as soon as notorious for intimidation by terror outfits and alleged rigging, drew blended reactions from voters, with Article 370’s nullification and improvement of the area being the deciding elements.
A number of exiled Kashmiri Pandits had been seen awaiting their turns at particular polling cubicles in Jammu. “I’ve voted for our everlasting return to Kashmir valley in an environment of peace and safety,” mentioned Shrikrishan Kaw, in his late 40s, at Jagti camp in Jammu’s Nagrota.
His daughter, Rashi Kaw, first-time voter, mentioned, “I voted to be a part of democracy. I additionally need central govt to chart out the financial empowerment of the exiled group and create job alternatives within the Valley in order that youth are engaged in nation constructing as a substitute of being distracted from the mainstream.”
52,100 Kashmiri migrants are registered as voters in Srinagar seat. EC gave Kashmiri migrants residing at aid camps in Delhi, Jammu, and Udhampur an choice to solid their vote through postal ballots or in individual at 26 designated particular polling cubicles: 21 in Jammu, 4 in Delhi, and 1 in Udhampur.
Kamran Ayub in Srinagar mentioned, “I solid my vote to precise my emotions. Individuals ought to vote to inform the world whether or not they’re pleased with the nullification of Article 370.”
Abdul Qayoom Dar, 60, from Batapora in Rajpora meeting phase, mentioned “We don’t need BJP and its allies to characterize us in Parliament for scrapping particular standing to J&Ok.”
Gulzar Ahmad Dar of Ganderbal mentioned he was backing Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP within the NC bastion. His spouse, Rafiqa Akhtar, mentioned, “NC has accomplished nothing for Ganderbal. For this reason Abdullahs didn’t contest from Srinagar.”
NC chief and ex-CM Farooq Abdullah received the seat in 2019.
A bit of the youth expressed scepticism in regards to the impression of their vote. “No person in my household has ever solid a vote. I do not suppose I’ll both. We don’t need false guarantees,” a first-time voter Gazala Mir mentioned.
(With inputs from Dipak Sprint in New Delhi and Sanjay Khajuria in Jammu)
