Polling is being held in three districts of Jammu and 4 districts of Kashmir valley.
Jammu And Kashmir Meeting Elections Reside Updates:
Voting within the first section of the three-phase Meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir is underway throughout 24 constituencies in seven districts in the present day. The Union Territory is voting for the primary time in an Meeting election in 10 years. That is the additionally first Meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir for the reason that abrogation of Article 370, which gave the erstwhile state particular standing, in 2019.
It is usually the primary time that Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing an Meeting election as a Union Territory. When Article 370 was abrogated, the state was divided into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Over 23 lakh voters are eligible to vote for 219 candidates, together with 90 independents, in eight Meeting segments in three districts of the Jammu area and 16 in 4 districts of Kashmir Valley. The polling is scheduled to finish at 6 pm.
Polling within the remaining 66 Meeting seats will probably be held within the different two phases on September 25 and October 1, whereas the counting of the votes will happen on October 8.
Listed here are dwell updates on Jammu and Kashmir Meeting Elections:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the individuals in Jammu and Kashmir to vote in giant numbers and strengthen the competition of democracy.
“As the primary section of the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting elections begins, I urge all these in constituencies going to the polls in the present day to vote in giant numbers and strengthen the competition of democracy. I notably name upon younger and first-time voters to train their franchise,” he posted on X.
As the primary section of the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting elections begins, I urge all these in constituencies going to the polls in the present day to vote in giant numbers and strengthen the competition of democracy. I notably name upon younger and first-time voters to train their franchise.
– Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 18, 2024
In Jammu, attempting their luck are former ministers Sajjad Kitchloo (Nationwide Convention), Khalid Najib Suharwardy (Nationwide Convention) Vikar Rasool Wani (Congress), Abdul Majid Wani (DPAP), Sunil Sharma (BJP), Shakti Raj Parihar (Doda west), and Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, a three-time MLA who’s combating as an Impartial after he was denied ticket by DPAP which he had joined after quitting Congress in assist of Ghulam Nabi Azad two years in the past.
Former MLA Daleep Singh Parihar (BJP), former MLC Firdous Tak and Imtiyaz Shan (PDP), NC’s Pooja Thakur, the sitting chairperson of district growth council Kishtwar, BJP’s younger face Shagun Parihar, whose father Ajit Parihar and uncle Anil Parihar had been killed by terrorists in November 2018, and Mehraj din Malik of AAP are amongst different distinguished faces within the first section of J&Ok Meeting polls.
Key candidates in Kashmir whose destiny will probably be determined in the present day embody CPI (M)’s Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, AICC common secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Nationwide Convention’s Sakina Itoo, and PDP’s Sartaj Madni and Abdul Rehman Veeri.
PDP’s Iltija Mufti, operating from Srigufwara-Bijbehara, and the get together’s youth chief Waheed Para, from Pulwama, are additionally the contenders to observe for within the first section.
The constituencies the place the polling is underway embody Pampore, Tral, Pulwama, Rajpora, Zainapora, Shopian, DH Pora, Kulgam, Devsar, Dooru, Kokernag (ST), Anantnag West, Anantnag, Srigufwara-Bijbehara, Shangus-Anantnag East, Pahalgam, Inderwal, Kishtwar, Padder-Nagseni, Bhadarwah, Doda, Doda West, Ramban and Banihal.
Polling underway for twenty-four Meeting constituencies throughout Jammu & Kashmir (16 in Kashmir and eight in Jammu).
Visuals from a polling centre in Kishtwar pic.twitter.com/HUomrVUIun
– ANI (@ANI) September 18, 2024
Based on the Election Fee (EC), a complete of 23,27,580 electors are eligible to vote in section 1 of the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting elections. Amongst them are 11,76,462 male, 11,51,058 feminine and 60 third-gender electors.
Voting within the first section of the Meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir has begun. It’ll proceed until 6 pm.
That is the primary time that Jammu and Kashmir will vote in an meeting election as a Union Territory. When Article 370 was abrogated on August 2019, the state was divided into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
That is the primary meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir for the reason that abrogation of Article 370, which gave the erstwhile state particular standing, in 2019.
