Lok Sabha Election 2024: Amid the polling for the sixth section of the Lok Sabha elections, Folks’s Democratic Get together chief Mehbooba Mufti held a protest. Ex-CM Mufti is alleging that the police have detained her occasion’s polling brokers and employees with none motive.
Mufti stated, “PDP employees are being locked up in police stations with none motive. DG, LG, all officers from prime to backside are concerned on this. They’ve locked up PDP polling brokers in police stations. You had stated that there will probably be free and truthful elections however you might be doing all this. Complaints are being acquired from locations the place efforts are being made to tamper the machines (EVMs).”
Mehbooba Mufti is within the electoral fray for the Anantnag-Rajouri seat towards Nationwide Convention (NC) candidate Mian Altaf Ahmad and Zafar Iqbal Manhas of the Apni Get together. On Friday, Mufti wrote to the Election Fee with a grievance claiming that her employees had been wrongfully detained on the eve of the elections
“Lots of our PDP polling brokers & employees are being detained simply earlier than voting. When the households went to the police stations they’re being advised that its being carried out on the behest of SSP Anantnag & DIG South Kashmir. We have written to @ECISVEEP. Hoping for his or her well timed intervention,” she claimed.
Earlier, the Election Fee had revised the date of polling within the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency from Could 7 to Could 25 after it acquired representations to reschedule the date of polling as a consequence of numerous points about ‘logistics, communication and pure boundaries of connectivity.’
Within the first normal elections in Jammu and Kashmir for the reason that abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, the voting has already concluded on the seats of Jammu, Baramulla, Srinagar and Udhampur. That is additionally the primary election in Anantnag-Rajouri after the delimitation train in 2022, which noticed the area of Poonch and Rajouri being mixed into the constituency.
Within the fifth section, the Baramulla parliamentary constituency of Jammu and Kashmir recorded a voter turnout of 55.79 per cent. As per the ECI, that is the very best voter turnout recorded within the constituency within the final eight Lok Sabha elections in 35 years. Previous to this, the Srinagar constituency additionally recorded its highest voter turnout since 199 with over 38 per cent.
