Moderate polling in Ganderbal town, Barsoo boycotts

Ganderbal which usually witnesses a good voter turnout this time saw moderate voting at many places except in some upper belts where people did come out to vote in significant numbers.

 “What have thesemainstream politicians done for people of Kashmir, apart from selling us fortheir petty gains?” said a group of youth, who were sitting outside a pollingstation at Beehama and hooting at whosoever was going inside polling station tocast his vote.

   

At polling station Saloora-A, 29 votes were polled out oftotal 1026 till noon while as at Saloora-B, 3 votes were polled out of 620 andSaloora-C, 15 votes were polled out of 939.

At polling station Gangerhama, 146 votes were polled out of1061 by 1pm.

However the nearby Lar tehsil witnessed moderate polling. Atpolling station Lar-A 211 votes were polled out of 592 votes till 1:30 pm whileas at polling station Lar-B 170 votes were polled out of 675 and at Lar-D 163votes were cast out of 779.

In Kangan assembly segment normal polling was witnessed inupper belts which form a traditional vote bank of the National Conference.

Clashes were reported between youth and forces in Pandacharea where security forces had to use teargas shelling to disperse theprotesters.

A dozen cops including a DySP sustained injuries.

Baroosa witnessed a complete boycott of the polling. The twopolling booths established at the village at Government boys middle school andGovernment girls middle school witnessed zero percent voter turnout till 5pm.There were also no polling agents from any political party at the two pollingstations.

“We don’t vote here, you can see that no one has come out tocast the vote nor will there be any polling agent from any party,” a group oflocals near the polling station said.

The area witnessed complete boycott also following thekilling of a local youth in firing by security forces on the day of polling inlast bi-parliamentary elections.

The forces deployed at the polling booths were seen on alertbut calm.

Similarly in four polling booths at nearby Tulmulla areaonly two migrant votes were polled up to 1:15 pm.

An official at the polling station said that only two voteshave been polled so far by the Kashmiri pandits. Among the four pollingstations set up in the area including Tulmulla C where no vote was polled outof 775, at Tulmulla E one migrant vote was cast out of 556, Tulmulla F no votewas polled out of 508 and at Tulmulla G one migrant vote was cast out of 866votes.

At polling station Fatehpora 38, only 18 votes were polledout of 1176 till afternoon.

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