First Time After Shedding Particular Standing, Jammu And Kashmir Is going To Polls As of late

Jammu/Srinagar:

Jammu and Kashmir is all set for its first election since being reorganised as a Union Territory closing yr with the maiden District Construction Council (DDC) polls starting these days, officers stated.

Campaigning for the primary section got here to an finish on Thursday, with elaborate preparations having been made for the sleek habits of the democratic workout, particularly in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, officers stated.

As much as 1,475 applicants are in fray within the first of the 8 levels, PTI reported. The election itself is being considered as a triangular contest between the Other folks’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the BJP, and the Apni Party floated through former finance minister Altaf Bukhari.

The PAGD, an amalgam of a number of mainstream political events, together with the Nationwide Convention and the Other folks’s Democratic Party, seeks to revive Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing, revoked through the Centre closing yr. It has accused the Bukhari-led party of being the BJP’s B-Staff, PTI reported.

There are 280 DDC seats within the Union Territory, 140 every within the Jammu and Kashmir areas, officers stated.

A complete of two,644 polling stations were arrange for 7,03,620 electors for section I, the officers stated. Balloting used to be to happen from 7 am to two pm.

Bye-elections to 12,153 panchayat constituencies may also be held concurrently, they stated. Of those, 11,814 are within the Kashmir valley and the remaining in Jammu, consistent with PTI.

State Election Commissioner KK Sharma has stated that every one important COVID protocols were installed position to verify protected polls.