Phase-II of Assembly elections will be held tomorrow, September 25, and among the 25.69 lakh voters, 15,500 migrant-displaced Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) are eligible to vote at 24 polling stations.
Around 239 candidates, including major political heavyweights in J&K, are contesting in this phase.
The KPs will cast their votes in 15 segments of central Kashmir’s Srinagar, Budgam, and Ganderbal districts.
Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner Arvind Karwani said on Tuesday that “over 15,500 Kashmiri migrant voters are eligible to cast their votes at 24 special polling stations set up in Jammu, Udhampur, and Delhi tomorrow for the second phase of elections.”
Karwani, who is also overseeing the poll process, said 14,700 KP voters are registered in Jammu to exercise their right to franchise at 19 polling stations.
Additionally, over 600 Kashmiri migrant voters are registered in the national capital, Delhi, to exercise their right to vote at four polling stations and 350 at one polling station in Udhampur established by the ECI, he said.
Karwani, who is supervising arrangements to make it easy for the displaced community members to vote, said all arrangements have been made for free and fair polling tomorrow.
The 25.69 lakh voters will decide the fate of leaders like former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah, congress candidate and former minister Tariq Hamid Karra, BJP’s UT chief Ravinder Raina, Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari, and four Pandit candidates in the fray.
The elections for the J&K legislative assembly are taking place after a gap of ten years. The last phase of the three-phase elections will take place on October 1, and the results will be announced on October 8.
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