LS polls: Nearly four percent voting in Kulgam till 11 am

Nearly four per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 a.m. on Monday in the second phase of polls in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag Lok Sabha seat, an election official said.

Voting began at 7 a.m. in Kulgam district’s four assemblysegments — Noorabad, Devsar, Kulgam and Homshalibugh.

   

At the Laram polling station in Homshalibugh, voting wasdelayed for 40 minutes due to a faulty Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) whichpoll authorities said was being replaced.

A total of 433 polling stations have been set up at 244locations.

There are 3,45,486 voters in the district. Twenty-onepolling stations have been set up for over 3,000 migrants voters in Udhampur,Jammu and Delhi.

As a precautionary measure, mobile Internet services havebeen suspended in the south Kashmir areas.

Train services between Baramulla and Banihal have also beencancelled for the day.

There are 18 candidates in the fray in this constituency,but the main contest is between Mehbooba Mufti of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), Ghulam Ahmad Mir of Congress and Justice (Retired) Hasnain Masoodi ofthe National Conference (NC).

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Sofi Yusuf and thePeople’s Conference (PC), Choudhary Zafar Ali. In addition, there is a lonewoman candidate, Ridwana Sanam who is contesting as an Independent.

For the first time in the electoral history of the state, anon-local, Shams Khwaja, a lawyer from Uttar Pradesh is also in the fray.

Voting will end at 4 p.m.

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