Anantnag By Election

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  Lok Sabha Polls: Anantnag In Jammu And Kashmir Records 8.76 Per Cent Voter Turnout

  Voting in militancy-hit Pulwama and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag constituency ended with a turnout of 8.76 per cent, a significant fall from the turnout of 28.54 per cent recorded during the 2014 Lok Sabha election

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  62.5 Per Cent Voting In Phase 5, Violence In Bengal, Kashmir: 10 Points

  Around 62.5 per cent people voted in the fifth round of the national election - up from 61.76 in 2014 -- that was marked by violence in parts of Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. In Bengal, two persons, including a BJP candidate, were injured in separate incidents. A grenade was thrown at a polling booth and an explosion set off elsewhere in Jammu and...

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  In Jammu And Kashmir's Pulwama, A Huge Challenge To Get People To Vote

  It's an unusual election meeting in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, yet to completely recover from the effects of February's terror attack that left 40 paramilitary soldiers dead.

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  Police Vehicle Transports Food Packets To BJP Rally In Kashmir, Probe On

  A video of a police vehicle transporting food packets and water bottles to a BJP rally in South Kashmir's Anantnag parliamentary constituency has emerged on social media, spurring the authorities to launch an investigation.

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  Watch: Mehbooba Mufti Backers Bash National Conference Worker On Poll Day

  Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah may have taken to launching joint attacks against the BJP on Twitter, but their newfound solidarity on common issues doesn't seem to have percolated down the party ranks. A video clip that has emerged on social media shows PDP supporters roughing up a Nationa...

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  Lok Sabha Elections: Anantnag, India's First Seat To Have Polls In 3 Phases, Sees Poor Voting

  Lok Sabha Elections: Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag constituency, which is creating a record of sorts by voting in three separate phases, has witnessed the minimum voting so far. The constituency, where the first phase of elections is being held today, showed 4.7 per cent voting till 11 am. The low figures pushed National Conference chief Omar Abdull...

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  Elections 2019: 66% Voting In Phase 3, 1 Killed In Violence In Bengal: 10 Points

  The third and largest phase of the national election witnessed a drop in poll percentage, with only 66 per people turning out to vote. Polling across 117 seats in 13 states and two Union Territories was marred by complaints of glitches in Electronic Voting Machines and violence in several states, in which a man died. The whole of Gujarat and Kerala...

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  Jammu And Kashmir Official Allegedly Manhandled By Army; Staff Protest

  A Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag was allegedly manhandled by the Army on Tuesday, sparking off protests by government employees who announced they would boycott poll duties till action was taken.

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  Under Shadow Of The Gun, How Leaders Are Campaigning In Pulwama

  It's a ghost election in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama that saw the worst terror attack on CRPF soldiers in February this year. Pulwama is one of the four districts in the highly sensitive Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency, for which polling will be held in three phases from April 23.

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  Election Commission Cancels Anantnag Lok Sabha By-Poll In Jammu And Kashmir Over Law And Order

  The Election Commission has cancelled the parliamentary by-election in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag, scheduled for May 25, citing security problems.