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| With 53% polling Anantnag-Rajouri segment scripts history | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 25: With 53 percent polling the newly crafted Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary constituency scripted a new chapter in the electoral history of Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier it was in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections when the erstwhile Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency recorded 70.08 percent polling, which was an all-time high.
In 1984, the Anantnag parliamentary constituency had a total 6,11,518 electors. Total these total voters, 411826 voters had cast their votes. Jammu & Kashmir Conference candidate Akbar Jahan Begum won and became MP from this seat. She secured a total of 240973 votes. Indian National Congress candidate Peer Hussan-ud-din stood second with a total of 158963 votes. He lost by 82010 votes.
In 2019, the Anantnag parliamentary constituency had a total of 13,97,779 electors. A total of 124896 was cast. Jammu & Kashmir National Conference candidate Hasnain Masoodi won and became MP from this seat. He secured a total 40180 votes. Indian National Congress candidate Ghulam Ahmad Mir stood second with total of 33504 votes. He lost by 6676 votes.
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| Border villages enjoy peaceful voting | | | | Early Times Report
NOWSHERA, May 25: Just metres from the Line of Control (LoC), the polling stations set up for Lok Sabha elections at Sehar and Makri, the last Indian villages in this sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, came to life with enthusiastic voters making a beeline to exercise their franchise without the fear of cross-border shelling. Rajouri along with Poonch south of Pir Panjal is part of Anantnag parliamentary constituency where polling is underway in the sixth phase to seal the fate of 20 candidates including PDP president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. This is the last of the five constituencies in J&K as polling was held in four seats earlier.
Meh... | |
| | | | Name not in voters’ list, claim non-migrant KPs | | | | Early Times Report
Mattan, May 25: Many non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits expressed anguish on Saturday, claiming that their names were not in the voters’ list, and termed it an “unfortunate” incident with a group that remained in the Kashmir region despite the turbulent militancy-period of the 1990s.
The matter pertained to a polling station set up at the Government Higher Secondary School here in
Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency that went to polls in the sixth round of the seven-phase general elections today.
No comment was immediately available from poll officials on the claims made by members of the small community that lives in a cluster in Anantnag district... | |
| | | | 50.72 cr voters exercised franchise in first 5 phases of LS polls: EC | | | | NEW DELHI, May 25: Of the 76.41 crore eligible voters in the first five phases of the Lok Sabha polls, as many as 50.72 crore people have cast their vote, according to data shared by the Election Commission on Saturday.
India has the largest electorate in the world at 96.88 crore. The EC data showed that 11 crore voters out of 16.64 crore total electors cast their vote in the first phase held on April 19 for 102 seats, the polling percentage being 66.14. In the second phase held on April 26 for 88 seats, the polling percentage was 66.71 with 10.58 crore people out of the total 15.86 crore eligible voters casting their vote. The third phase of the polls on May 7 for 94 seats saw as many as ... | |
| | | | Lady among 4 injured in clashes at polling station | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 25: Four persons sustained injuries after two groups clashed during polling at polling station Shahpur in District Poonch on Saturday. Officials said that around 12:35 pm two groups clashed between each other for unknown reasons at polling station Shahpur.
During classes four people sustained injuries and where shifted to district hospital Poonch for treatment. They have been identified as Zahoor Din (40) son of Mohammad Sharif, Shazad Ahmad (20) Son of Mohammad Yousuf, Miss Saleema Bi(18) wife of Shazad Ahmad and Mohammad Aslam (22) son of Mohammad Sharif all residents of Shahpur.
Meanwhile, police has registered a case in this regard and investigation... | |
| | | | CEC’s statement rekindles hope of early assembly polls in J&K | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 25: After witnessing a remarkable voter turnout in the Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar has hinted at the possibility of Assembly elections in the region soon. This announcement follows the impressive polling percentages in Srinagar, Baramulla, and Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary constituencies. Srinagar recorded 38 percent, Baramulla 59 percent, and Anantnag-Rajouri is likely to touch over 60 percent voter turnout respectively.
“The highly successful conduct of polls with impressive turnout in Srinagar, Baramulla, and Anantnag-Rajouri gives the Election Commission the confidence to hold Assembly polls i... | |
| | | | INDIA Bloc performing ‘Mujra’ for its vote bank: PM Modi | | | | BUXAR/DEHRI/BIKRAM (Bihar), May 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday vowed to thwart alleged attempts to rob Dalits and backward classes of reservations by the INDIA bloc which he accused of “enslavement” and performing “mujra” for Muslim vote bank.
Addressing back-to-back rallies in Buxar, Karakat and Patliputra Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar, the prime minister also charged the opposition coalition with indulging in “scaremongering”, and claimed that he had been working “without fear” to wipe out terrorism and root out corruption.
“Bihar is the land which has given a new direction to the fight for social justice. I wish to declare on its soil that I will foil the plans of th... | |
| | | | Police picked up some OGWsas preventive measure: CEO Pole | | | | Early Times RepoRT
Srinagar, May 25: Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) P K Pole on Saturday said police picked up some persons with past records and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) in Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary Constituency as a preventive measure. “The Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary constituency is the constituency which witnessed 80 percent of incidents before and during the elections campaign in the entire Union Territory,” Pole told media in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday.
He said to ensure smooth and peaceful polling police took some preventive measures.
“Either it is Rajouri, Poonch or Anantnag- Bijbehara side, some terror incident did take place be... | |
| | | | Those with tainted past in preventive custody: Police | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar/Anantnag, May 25: Soon after PDP chief and party candidate from the Anantnag-Rajouri LS seat Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday staged a sit in alleging her party workers’s arrest in a “repeat of 1987 rigging”, the
Jammu and Kashmir Police issued statement that “very few having ‘tainted past’ were taken into ‘preventive’ custody.
Claims made by a political party that their workers have been detained are a “very few and those who have a tainted past taken into preventive custody”, Anantnag police posted on X.
“Firstly, detentions are very few and restricted only to those who have a tainted past and based on credible inputs of potential threats to law and order and s... | |
| | | | 4 Punjab residents dead in Kulgam accident | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 25: Four Punjab residents died, while three were critically injured in a road accident in Nipora area of Kulgam district on Saturday afternoon, officials said.
An official said that a vehicle on way from Qazigund to Srinagar skidded off the road near grid
station in Nipora area.
He said 7 tourists all from Punjab’s Moga districtwere onboard the vehicle when the incident took place.
“The injured were shifted to GMC hospital Anantnag, where 4 were pronounced dead and three are said to be critical,” he said.
Police have taken cognisance of the incident.... | |
| | | | PoJK is ours and we will take it: Amit Shah | | | | SHIMLA, May 25: Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) is a part of India and “we will take it”, Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Saturday as he castigated the Congress for trying to “frighten” the BJP by saying the neighbouring country possesses atom bombs.
Addressing a rally at Amb in Una district, the heartland of soldiers, he also appealed to people to ensure the victory of the BJP in the bypolls to six assembly seats for the formation of a BJP Government in the hill state, currently ruled by the Congress.
Shah said that only a strong Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi can fight terrorism, ensure economic growth and take care of the poor.
“The Congress is trying... | |
| | | | Woman booked under Narco Act | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 25: Police on Saturday booked a notorious woman drug smuggler under the Narco Act in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
The notorious drug smuggler, identified as Muskaan Begum, a resident of Dewanbagh Baramulla, has been booked under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority.
The drug smuggler has been detained and subsequently lodged in Central Jail Srinagar, police said.
Police said that many cases were registered against the said drug smuggler, who was involved in promoting the drug abuse trade by supplying drugs to local ... | |
| | | | Anti-tank mine found | | | | Early Times Report
SAMBA/JAMMU, May 25: A rusted anti-tank mine was found on a river bank in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Saturday, police said.
The lethal device was noticed by a villager on the banks of Basanter river near Bainglar village this afternoon, said a police official.
The villager informed the concerned police post and a bomb disposal squad was rushed to neutralize the mine, he added.... | |
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