INDIA VOTES 2024: Jammu sees 71.91% citizen turnout - watsupptoday.com
INDIA VOTES 2024: Jammu sees 71.91% citizen turnout
Posted 27 Apr 2024 02:10 PM

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With surveying in the Hindu-larger part Jammu Lok Sabha seat on Friday, the recently cut Gathering section in the electorate — Shri Mata Vaishno Devi — saw the limit of 74.65 percent citizen turnout (till 5 pm). Casting a ballot across the portion was 71.91 percent. The Delimitation Commission had told Shri Mata Vaishno Devi as another Get together electorate in 2022.

Older citizens show their inked fingers in Jammu on Friday. ANI
Older and youthful citizens turned out in huge numbers during surveying in the voting public, which has a blend of metropolitan and country regions. Occupants living along the Global Boundary (IB) with Pakistan likewise emerged to cast a ballot en masse.

In a move towards inclusivity and natural cognizance, the Political decision Commission (EC) had laid out 109 surveying stations of various classifications for citizens in the supporters.

These imaginative surveying stations, including ladies monitored, youth monitored, People with Inability (PwD) monitored, green surveying stations, line surveying stations and exceptional surveying stations, were intended to cater explicitly to ladies, youth, advance eco-accommodating practices among others.

There are 17,80,738 electors in the body electorate, including 9,21,053 guys, 8,59,657 females and 28 third-orientation citizens. In Jammu area, three ladies monitored, three PwD monitored, two youth monitored, four green, fifty line and three special surveying stations were laid out. Additionally, three ladies monitored, three PwD monitored, three youth monitored, three green, twelve line and two special surveying stations were laid out for simplicity of citizens in Samba locale.

In Reasi area, three ladies monitored, three PwD monitored, three youth monitored, four green and one extraordinary surveying station was laid out. In Rajouri (Sunderbani-Kalakote) area, one ladies monitored, one PWD monitored, one youth monitored and one green surveying station was laid out. The body electorate saw 57.76 percent casting a ballot till 3 pm and 42.88 percent surveying till 1 pm.

"Besides, the EC's responsibility towards natural manageability has been exhibited through the execution of green practices at these surveying stations. Each viewpoint is fastidiously intended to limit natural effect and advance a greener future," said J&K Boss Discretionary Official (Chief) Pandurang K Shaft.

He added: "The foundation of these one of a kind surveying stations highlights our faithful commitment towards encouraging inclusivity and maintainability in the electing system." He said the ECI accepts that each resident ought to have equivalent admittance to practice their popularity based right and these surveying stations address a critical stage towards accomplishing that objective.

Jammu had recorded a turnout of 72.16 percent in 2019 and 67.8 percent in 2014. Sitting BJP MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and his relatives casted a ballot at a surveying corner at the Kishenpur government secondary school in Nagrota. Congress competitor Raman Bhalla likewise casted a ballot in Gandhi Nagar region. Here BJP is peering toward a full go-around, after Udhampur supporters.

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