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| Poll season picks up | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 26: With the indications that the Election Commission may announce dates for Jammu and Kashmir polls in first week of October, political parties and the election department have got into hyper-operational mode to put their acts together.
Bhartiya Janta Party is already on its toes consolidating dividends of the Jammu agitation, the Congress has suddenly jumped in and the cadres have been asked to fasten their belts. Bahujan Samaj Party, yet another keen player this time, too has gone into active mode. The party is organizing a massive rally here on Sunday.
The National Conference leadership is though not speaking up but their second rung leaders have been fanned out to the fields. Same is the case with Peoples Democratic Party which has deployed all its men to the constituencies.
The Election Commission, it is reliably learnt, is likely to announce the election schedule anytime before October 10. The state machinery has meanwhile geared up for the polls in the state where nearly 65 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise this time.
A team of engineers from Bangalore is currently repairing the machines in the Valley where Electronic Voting Machines have been checked and defective electronic machines are being repaired.
64,97,593. Out of these 33,52,147 will be male and 31,45,445 female voters.
The total number of electorate in 2002 Assembly Elections was 63,71,858. Of these 29,01,832 were female voters whereas 34,70,026 were male voters.
In 2005 an intensive revision of electoral rolls was undertaken and after deletion and addition the number of electorate remained at 62,89,857 in 2005. Out of these 32,52,503 were male and 30,37,354 were female voters.
The figures show there was marked decrease in the number of male voters and marked increased in the number of female voters as a result of the intensive revision in 2005.
It said the summary revision of electoral rolls is an ongoing process and even voters are still registering their names with the booth level officers.
The process of preparing Electronic Photo Identity Cards to the voters is also going on and so far a checklist in respect of Budgam and Ganderbal districts has been printed while in case of Pulwama it is going to be printed shortly. In other districts the process is yet to start. |
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