Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 14: Over 50 percent migrants cast their votes for 16 Assembly segments of Kashmir Valley at Jammu in the fourth phase of polling today.
According to Sachin Dev Singh, ARO Migrants out of 20,955 migrants who had filled up their M Forms to cast their vote for 16 Assembly Segment of Kashmir Valley 11870 migrants cast their vote today.
He said in Habba Kadal Constituency out of over 16000 migrant votes 4720 migrants had opted for M Forms and out of it only 2613 turned up for casting their vote today.
Likewise in Bijbehara which has over 5000 migrant votes, 2392 migrants had filled up their M Forms out of which 1431 turned up to cast their vote at different polling stations in Jammu.
In Amirakadal Assembly Segment of Central Kashmir district of Srinagar, which out of over 4000 migrant votes only 1329 voters had filled up their M Forms and among them only 829 cast their vote.
In Hazratbal out of 570 migrants who had filled up their M Forms 347 cast their vote. In Zadibal Assembly Segment of Srinagar out of 129 migrant votes 77 were polled while in Eidgah out of 152 votes 66 were polled.
In Khanyar Assembly Segment of Srinagar district out of 968 votes 283 votes were polled while in Sonawar Assembly Constituency out of 372 votes 244 votes were polled.
In Batamaloo Assembly Segment in Srinagar out of 805 votes 466 votes were polled while in Wachi Assembly Segment of Shopian district out of 1149 votes 636 were poled. In Shopian Assembly Segment out of 828 votes 445 votes were polled while in Anantnag Assembly Constituency out of 1618 votes 796 were polled and in Dooru Assembly Segment out of 1112 votes 643 were polled.
In Kokernag Assembly Segment of Anantnag district out of 1783 votes 1079 were polled while in Shangus and Pahalgam Assembly Segments out of 1609 and 1419 votes 1038 and 897 votes were polled respectively.
In Delhi NCR 202 migrants cast their vote in four polling booths.
It may be recalled that in Habbakadal Constituency three Pandit candidates Raman Mattoo Congress, Moti Kaul of BJP and Sanjay Saraf of LJP are contesting with an eye on migrant votes.
The Constituency had over 16000 migrant votes but the majority of voters preferred not to fill up the M Forms due to the cumbersome voting procedure said R L Bhan a political activist.
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