Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 2: After remaining dormant in mainstream political activities from last twenty five years the people in Tral might return to polling booths in these Assembly elections as the ice has been broken due to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scare, anti-incumbency of the local MLA and allegiance to different other contesting candidates.
Party flags and buntings have been tucked everywhere and the candidates are vowing voters openly to vote in their favour.
However, the candidates have also faced brunt of public at many places where some youth resorted to stone pelting on the contesting candidates. But the situation has remained normal till now and the movement of politicians has remained unhindered in these elections.
“People in the Tral constituency have been kept backward on development front and all those who have represented Tral constituency have failed to harness potential of this area”, said Ghulam Mohammd Mir, contesting candidate for Congress party, adding that people are fed up with boycott politics.
Some people in the constituency have also voiced to end boycott politics and have decided to poll their vote in this election.
“This time I do not want to miss my vote as Tral has suffered by boycott calls and now it is our turn to make the candidates accountable to people”, said Kousar Ahmad, a resident of Tral, adding that less turnout can handover the seat to BJP.
People have also been seen in the rallies and attending the meetings of their respective candidates and are carving out strategies to attain their goals. Tral is one of the most volatile areas in the Valley and is reckoned as hotbed of militancy. In parliamentary elections the total turnout in the entire Tral constituency was just around 1100 votes and it seemed that Government had imperiled the life of polling staff as they survived many attacks in different villages.
Meanwhile, the area so far has remained peaceful in these elections unlike the Parliam-entary elections when there was uncertainty in the atmosphere and three people including a sarpanch, his son and a village headman were killed.
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