The Preparations for Second Phase of Kashmir Elections 2024 is underway, with voting on 26 seats including key battlegrounds Budgam and Kanderbal. BJP aims for a major victory but faces strong competition from Regional parties and independent candidates. All eyes are on Omar Abdullah, who is contesting from two seats, to see if he can secure both.
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00:00The countdown for the second phase of Assembly elections in 26 constituencies have started
00:20in J&K.
00:21The poll body has deployed staff and sent EVMs to the designating polling booths to
00:28seal the fate of 239 candidates including former J&K CM Mr. Umar Abdullah, Apni Party
00:36President Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari and the BJP State Unit Head Mr. Ravinder Raina.
00:41What are the preparations being made to ensure that smooth elections are conducted and more
00:47and more people come out to vote?
00:49Different kind of facilitation have been provided to right from the nomination process when
00:54the candidates were coming to us for filing the nominations at the RO headquarter in the
00:58Deputy Commissioner Office in Srinagar.
01:00So from there only we are facilitating the candidates.
01:03Now it's the time when the poll parties have come to the DCRC, DCRC means Displaced Collection
01:08Reception Centre at SP Higher Secondary School, this M.A Road.
01:12You are very much present in here and you can see, have a look up on the polling parties,
01:17they are having the Presiding Officer, polling 1, 2, 3 plus all the polling personnel as
01:23well as the microbus are in place and they have reported to the DCRC.
01:27Can you please tell us what are the preparations being made to ensure smooth conduct of votes tomorrow?
01:33Everything is okay here, starting to end, sab kuch iss weekend se ho raha hai.
01:39What are the preparations being made for the smooth conduct of votes tomorrow?
01:45As you can see, we have been provided with the necessary material which will be used
01:51at the concerned polling station where we are deployed and we have already been provided
01:59all the material.
02:00So the staff will be deployed and EVMs sent to the polling station?
02:04Yes, within 2 or 3 hours we will be going there.
02:09Polling percentage will be much better than the last election.
02:13Have the EVMs been sent to the designated places, designated polling points?
02:18No, EVMs have not been dispatched yet because we are expecting that whole polling parties
02:24of 143 polling stations will get their EVMs and the different kind of material which is
02:29required to be filled up by the polling parties at the closure of the poll, at the end of
02:32the poll, that is tomorrow on the poll day.
02:34So we are expecting that after taking the lunch, after having the lunch, they will be
02:38dispatched from this area only.
02:39Sir, are there any special polling booths for women and handicapped?
02:42Yes, there are different kind of special polling stations for women, there are pink polling
02:47station, it's in the higher secondary school Zadibal, the green polling station for the
02:52Zadibal Kanchan Si is in the Sajgaripura, it's in the Shaheen Public School.
02:55We are having a special polling station for the disabled also and we are also supplying
02:59the wheelchairs for physically challenged people.
03:02The polling parties will get the wheelchairs at the time of receiving the machinery, that
03:07is the EVM and other kind of material.
03:09So they will provide the facilities for the PWD voters in the polling station as well.
03:14The ramp has also been placed as an assured minimum facility.
03:16The countdown for the second phase of assembly elections in 26 constituencies have started
03:21in J&K.
03:23The poll body has deployed staff and sent EVMs to the designating polling booths to
03:29seal the fate of 239 candidates including former J&K CM Mr. Umar Abdullah, Apni Party
03:37President Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari and the BJP State Unit Head Mr. Ravinder Raina.
03:43In Srinagar for One India, Izhar Ali.