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Almost 90 Percent Boycott Elections in Kulgam

April 29

Amid a thick security blanket, the voting for the Kulgam District has closed at 4 PM with expectedly low turnout, which remained at 10.2 percent.

The Kashmiriyat reporters throughout the day provided you live updates and coverage of the major happenings including hourly updates of the polling percentage.

A thick security blanket was laid around the entire district as 30,000 additional troopers have been deployed for the volatile South Kashmir- Pulwama, Islamabad (Anantnag), Shopian and Kulgam.

Clashes also erupted at several places including Quimoh, Kujjar, Khudwani, where four youth were injured in Kujar area of Kulgam.
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The district has a total of four assembly segments which went to polls today, Kulgam, Noorabad, Hom Shalibugh and Devsar.

The Hom Shalibugh segment witnessed the lowest turnout of 1.1 percent, as only 891 votes were Polled out of total of 78699 votes, clashes also erupted at a few places in the area.

Tight security arrangements had been made here, in the as youth attacked polling parties in various areas of the HS Bugh segment.

In Kulgam segment, the roads wore a deserted look and people chose to stay inside their houses.

Out of a total of 98,298, a total of 1684 voters cast their votes taking the voting percentage to 1.7 percent.

The highest polling percentage was witnessed in Noorabad at 20.5 Percent here, 15663 votes were polled here out of 77171 votes.

Mobile internet services had been snapped in the entire South Kashmir as a precautionary measure. Most of the areas in the district witnessed a boycott to low voter turnout in the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls.

A Police official told The Kashmiriyat that polling by and large remained peaceful.