Voting begins in Anantnag, Mehbooba Mufti protests, alleges - 'Workers are being confined in police stations'

Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Amid voting for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti protested, alleging that police detained her party's polling agents and workers without any reason. have taken. Mufti, who is contesting against Nation Conference (NC) candidate Mian Altaf Ahmed and APN Party's Zafar Iqbal Manhas on the Anantnag-Rajouri seat, said, "PDP workers are being detained in police stations without any reason. DG, LG, all the officers are involved in this from top to bottom. You had said that there will be free and fair elections but you are trying to create irregularities. On Friday, Mufti wrote to the Election Commission with a complaint that her workers were wrongly detained on the eve of the elections, "Many of our PDP polling agents and workers are being detained just before the polling." Is.When they went to the police stations, they were told that this had been done on the orders of SSP Anantnag and DIG South Kashmir. We have written to @ECISVEE expecting their timely intervention.'' Earlier, the Election Commission had postponed the polling date in Anantnag-Rajouri constituency to May 7 after receiving representations to reschedule the polling date. Was revised to 25th May. Due to various issues related to logistics, communication and natural constraints of connectivity. In the first general election in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, voting has already concluded in Jammu, Baramulla, Srinagar and Udhampur seats.This is also the first election in Anantnag-Rajouri after delimitation. In the fifth phase of the exercise in 2022, in which the regions of Poonch and Rajouri were merged into the constituency, Baramulla parliamentary constituency in Jammu and Kashmir recorded 55.79 per cent voting. According to the ECI, this is the highest turnout recorded in the constituency in the last 8 Lok Sabha elections in 35 years. Earlier, Srinagar constituency had recorded its highest turnout since 1999 with over 38 per cent.