| In Kokernag, only ward 5 recorded double digit percentage | | | Early Times Report
Anantnag, Oct 8: In Southern Kashmir, elections were held on four wards of Kokernag Muncipal Comittee on Monday in first phase of muncipal elections that are underway in the state.
At Kokernag, among four Muncipal wards, only ward-5 recorded double digit poll percentage.
According to official figures, at Ward-5, 106 votes were polled out of 276 registered voters.
While as in Muncipal Ward-9, two votes out of 264, In Ward-11, 4 votes out of 218 and in Ward-13, 7 votes out of 904 registered voters were polled till 4pm. According to figures released by Chief Electoral Officer, 119 votes out of 1662 Votes were polled in the day.
With this, Anantnag district of South Kashmir recorded 7.16 poll percentage. Local residents, who wished not to be named said that presence of police station and other security camps encouraged voters of Ward-5.
"Kokernag Police Station and a camp of CRPF is near to Ward-5. People here feeling safe that is why they (people) came out in large numbers to vote for their condidates," a local resident told Early Times.
Elections weren't held at Qazigund, Devsar and Kulgam as during the nomination process, single candidates filled nomination papers and were declared winner and also few wards remained vacant as candidates didn't turn up to file nomination papers during the process. |
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