Voting for the Jammu and Kashmir’s Jammu and the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituencies began on Thursday morning, poll officials said.
Voting started at 7 a.m.. It will end at 6 p.m.
“Voting has started peacefully in the Jammu andBaramulla Lok Sabha constituencies under tight security,” the officialssaid.
Voters were seen lined up outside polling stations inJammu’s rural areas of R.S.Pura, Suchetgarh, Samba and Nowshera.
In urban areas like Gandhinagar, Chinni, Satwari, voterscame out in ones and twos in the morning as authorities said the turnout waslikely to pick up as the day progresses.
In the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat, very few voters came out inthe morning especially in urban centres like Sopore, Baramulla old town,Kupwara and Bandipora.
Reports from border areas like Gurez, Karnah and Uri ofBaramulla said voters started coming out in good numbers to exercise theirfranchise in the morning.