New Delhi: A big change is undertaken within the Kashmir valley for the primary time within the final three a long time, election marketing campaign rallies are being held in areas as soon as thought of a stronghold of terrorists and separatists. Election marketing campaign rallies are being held from Srinagar’s Lal Chowk Ghantaghar to town’s downtown and far-flung areas of South Kashmir.
These are the identical areas that have been notorious for stone pelting, shutdown, and terrorism, and have been the stronghold of separatists. Now, a distinct situation is unfolding in these areas. Many election rallies are happening and youths and ladies are taking part in these election rallies, asserting that the electoral course of is the trail of democracy, and our vote is the one method that may take us to our objective.
Whereas speaking to the individuals witnessing the change in Kasmir’s state of affairs, Aamir Ahmed, an area particular person, mentioned, “Earlier no one used to take part, you know what was taking place right here, individuals have been tagged as stone pelters, and individuals have been very upset. Boys have been going to drug camps. Now we’re telling everybody that politics can also be a platform the place we will speak. Not with bullets, not with stones, not with pellets. No matter occurs within the parliament will happen by talks.”
Different native individuals named Naeema mentioned, “Vote is the only means, it’s our energy, but our energy is being squandered, there are such a lot of educated individuals, right now we’re combating for them.”
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer P Okay Pole mentioned that the campaigning in Kashmir valley is getting individuals’s enormous response.
“The election environment in Kashmir valley, campaigning and folks’s participation and highway exhibits are getting an enormous response. The environment of normalcy throughout the area is a sign that the voting proportion will likely be a lot greater than the voting proportion of 2019 elections,” P Okay Pole mentioned.
