Polling begins for Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag LS seat

Amid unprecedented security, polling started on Tuesday for the first phase of the three-phased Anantnag Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir, election officials said.

Polling began at 7 a.m. and will end at 4 p.m.

   

Heavy deployment of THE Central Armed Police Force (CAPF)and state police has been made to secure the polling stations and providesafety to the voters.

Security forces are also deployed along roads and hillsideareas overlooking the polling stations to prevent militants from disrupting thepoll process.

Mobile Internet facility and train services have beensuspended for the day as a precautionary measure.

Very few people were seen at the 714 polling stations set upfor 5,23,566 voters in six polling segments of Bijbehara, Pahalgam, Shangus,Anantnag, Kokernag and Dooru.

Poll authorities have set up 26 polling stations outside thevalley for Kashmiri Pandit migrant voters.

Of these, 21 have been set up in Jammu, four in Delhi andone in Udhampur district.

Mehbooba Mufti, the Peoples Democratic Party President,Ghulam Ahmed Mir, state President of the Congress, Justice (Retired) HasnainMasoodi of the National Conference, Sofi Yusuf of the Bharatiya Janata Party,Chowdhury Zafar Ali of the People’s Conference are in the fray in thisconstituency.

A lawyer from Uttar Pradesh, Shams Khwaja and a lone femalecandidate, Ridwana Sanam are also in the run.

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