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Srinagar city not J&K State
10/9/2018 11:23:19 PM

Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 9: The high voter turnout in Jammu and Ladakh, which constitute 0ver 88 per cent of the state's land area and house more than half of the state's population, has rattled the vested interests in Kashmir where the voter turnout was a paltry 8 per cent. They have been doing all through favourable media houses to tell the international community that the Monday electoral exercise was just a farce as the people. They have been claiming that there was low turnout and polling booths remained deserted.
"Low turnout marked phase one of J&K local body polls and booths remained deserted," they said again and again to mislead public opinion and to hide the truth. The sought to equate Srinagar city with the whole of J&K State saying there was no polling in Srinagar district. "Srinagar is the heart of J&K State. The people in Srinagar boycotted the polls. No polls in Srinagar is a proof that that the ongoing electoral exercise is meaning less," vested interests in Kashmir said. In Srinagar district, only 7.3 per cent voters voted. For them nearly 70 per cent voter turn out in Jammu and 78 per cent voter turn out in Ladakh's Kargil district and over 55 per cent voter turnout in Ladakh's Leh district was nothing. It was a sham exercise for them.
The NC, for instance, said that "election in the urban local bodies have turned out to be an exercise in waste and had caused a shadow on the very roots of democracy" and added that the "whole process was superimposed on the state without taking into consideration the ground realities". "The elections are like festivals of democracy which induce new life into a nation's life but the ongoing polls have cast a shadow on the very roots of democracy in the state," the NC further said. The rattled NC further said: "It is an inconsiderate exercise to hold the urban local bodies in the Valley. The institutions of the state are being bulldozed…to satiate the arrogance of those who continue to target the state's special status and don't want normalcy to return to the state".
The Hurriyatwalas - Geelanis, Mirwaizs and Maliks - congratulated the people of the state for boycotting the election. And they made only a fool of themselves by not recognizing the nature of the Monday vote in the ULB elections.
The truth is that the Monday mandate has exposed the Kashmiri leadership and established that their whole politics is based on politics of falsehood and rhetoric.
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