Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Dec 9: Over 50 percent votes were polled by Kashmiri migrants in 16 Assembly segments of Kashmir Valley which went to polls today.
Out of 8,166 migrants who had filled up their M Forms to cast their vote in third phase of polling, 4607 turned up for voting at 114 special polling booths set up at 20 locations in Jammu.
According to Sachin Dev Singh, ARO Migrants out of 21 locations migrants had opted for voting on 20 locations for third phase in Jammu.
He said highest number of votes by migrants were polled in Gulmarg Assembly Segment in North Kashmir district of Baramulla where out of 1270 migrants who had filled up their M Forms 786 cast their vote. This was followed by Rajpora Assembly Segment in Pulwama district of South Kashmir where out of 1289 voters 710 exercised their franchise.
In Pulwama Assembly segment 251 migrants cast their vote out of 480 while in Tral in the same district 439 exercised their franchise out of 734. In Chrar-e-Sharief Constituency of Budgam district 213 migrant polled their votes out of 354 while in Khansahib Assembly Segment of the same district 185 migrants cast their vote out of 316 and in Bureau Assembly segment also in Budgam district 125 migrants cast their vote out of 240 voters.
In Budgam Assembly Segment 152 votes were polled out of 295 while in Chadura Assembly Segment of the same district 89 votes were polled out of 152.
Giving further details Singh said in Pattan Assembly Segment of Baramulla district of North Kashmir 71 migrants cast their vote out of 163 voters, while in Baramulla Assembly Segment 331 migrants exercised their franchise out of 691 voters. In Sangrama Assembly Constituency of Baramulla district 178 votes were polled out of 316 while in Sopore 422 votes were polled out of 823.
In Rafiabad Assembly Segment 279 migrants cast their votes out of 404.
Besides 82 votes were cast at one special polling booth out of 216 votes setup at Udhampur today. This was stated by ARO Migrants Udhampur, Ranjit Singh.
At three special polling booths in Delhi NCR 28 votes were polled by Kashmiri migrants out of 56 votes.
According to S K Fotedar, ARO Migrants Delhi three polling Stations were set up at Dilshad Garden Delhi, J K House 5 Prithvi Raj Road and Deputy Director Horticulture and Marketing, Shalimar Bagh Delhi.
It may be recalled that out of 19,575 migrant voters in 16 Assembly segments of Kashmir Valley only 8168 had opted for M Forms to cast their vote in third phase of elections today.
The cumbersome procedure for voting is assigned as reason for poor response by migrant voters by various KP organizations.
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