Campaigning for the first phase of the urban local body (ULB) polls in Jammu and Kashmir ended on Sunday, 24 hours before the start of voting in 422 wards spread over a dozen districts.
The polling, which will start at 7 am on Monday, will seal the fate of 1,283 candidates—the highest in any phase—who are trying their luck from 247 wards in Jammu, 149 in Kashmir and 26 in Ladakh.
While the candidates have left no stone unturned to woo the voters in the Jammu and Ladakh regions, the campaigning has been a low-key affair in the Valley, where threats, violence and boycott by the state’s two main parties—the National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)—have cast a shadow over the polls.
Campaigning for the first phase of the urban local body (ULB) polls in Jammu and Kashmir ended on Sunday, 24 hours before the start of voting in 422 wards spread over a dozen districts.
The polling, which will start at 7 am on Monday, will seal the fate of 1,283 candidates—the highest in any phase—who are trying their luck from 247 wards in Jammu, 149 in Kashmir and 26 in Ladakh.
While the candidates have left no stone unturned to woo the voters in the Jammu and Ladakh regions, the campaigning has been a low-key affair in the Valley, where threats, violence and boycott by the state’s two main parties—the National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)—have cast a shadow over the polls.
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