(24 News) After a decade, the first phase of the so-called assembly elections of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir will take place today, polling will take place in 24 constituencies today.
Polling will be held today in 24 of the 90 constituencies of the Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, for which 219 candidates are in the field, 23 lakh 27 thousand 580 people have been declared eligible to vote in seven districts, a total of 219 candidates. Participating in the election.
In Srinagar, 8.7 lakh voters will exercise their right to vote, the remaining 66 seats will go to polls on September 25 and October 1, while the Modi government has turned the occupied valley into a military cantonment.
Elections are being held on 8 seats in three constituencies of Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar of Occupied Jammu, while polling will be held on 16 seats in 4 districts of Azad Kashmir, Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam.
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A staff of 14 thousand people has been deployed for polling, voting will continue from 7 am to 6 pm.
In these state elections held almost a decade later, India prepared to get votes from 35 thousand Kashmiri Pandits.
A total of 219 candidates are participating in the election, the contest between BJP, Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP and Umar Abdullah’s National Conference is expected.
In the previous assembly, the coalition government of Bharatiya Janata Party and Peoples Democratic Party was formed.
2024-09-18 16:32:47