NVI Correspondent
Srinagar, Oct 01 (NVI): Amid great enthusiasm, the polling for the last phase of Assembly polls began today in the 40 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) across seven districts of Jammu & Kashmir.
The polling started at 7:00 AM in all 5,060 polling stations across 40 Assembly Constituencies of seven districts namely Kupwara, Baramulla and Bandipora in Kashmir Division; and Jammu, Udhampur, Kathua and Samba in Jammu Division. Earlier, mock drills were also conducted in all the polling stations.
From early morning, long queues of enthusiastic voters are being witnessed, waiting for their turn to exercise their right to franchise. In this phase, 39,18,220 voters are eligible to cast their ballots, comprising 20,09,033 male voters, 19,09,130 female voters and 57 third-gender voters. This phase will determine the fate of 415 candidates.
Witnesses told NVI that in Kashmir’s traditional vote bastions, long queues were seen early morning. The border areas that include Kupwara, Karnah, Gurez are seeing a great enthusiasm among the voters. In Bandipora, people are coming in large numbers as well to cast ballot.
The respective District Administrations have made elaborative arrangements at all the polling stations for free, fair and transparent elections.(News Vibes of India)
