BIJBEHARA: A low voter turnout of just above two per cent was witnessed Tuesday in this assembly segment, the home of former chief minister and PDP candidate Mehbooba Mufti, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency, a militancy hotbed, where the election is being held in three phases due to security reasons.
The authorities clubbed seven polling booths of the town inside a building housing the office of the Executive Engineer, Public Health Engineering (PHE), Bijbehara, 45 kms from the summer capital Srinagar.
According to figures available on the Election Commission’s Voter Turnout App, the final polling number for the Bijbehara Assembly segment was 2.04 per cent. (AGENCIES)