Jammu and Kashmir elections: 44% voter turnout recorded till 1 pm in third phase
Among the prominent faces contesting include People’s Conference chairperson and former minister Sajjad Lone, who is contesting from two seats in Kupwara.
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Voting for the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections began at 7 am on Tuesday, with 40 out of the 90 seats in the Union territory going to polls.
These are the first Assembly elections in the Union territory since the abrogation of Article 370, which gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Till 1 pm, a voter turnout of 44% was recorded in the Union territory. Udhampur district recorded the highest turnout of 51.6% and the lowest was seen in Baramulla at 36.6%.
A total of 415 candidates are in the fray in seven districts: Jammu, Udhampur, Samba and Kathua in the Jammu region and Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara in north Kashmir.
Among the prominent faces contesting on Tuesday include People’s Conference chairperson and former minister Sajjad Lone, who is contesting from two seats in Kupwara.
Two former deputy chief ministers – Tara Chand and Muzaffar Baig – are also in the fray. While Chand, a Congress veteran, is contesting from Chhamb, Baig is fighting from Baramulla on a Peoples Democratic Party ticket.
National Panthers Party India chief Dev Singh is contesting the polls from Chenani. Former ministers Raman Bhalla is fighting from RS Pura, Usman Majid from Bandipora, Nazir Ahmad Khan...
