As Jammu and Kashmir navigates its first election post-abrogation of Article 370, a sense of hope and anticipation emerges amid a complex history of conflict and efforts to restore peace.
With a significant voter turnout of 61.38% in phase 1 and 54.11% in phase 2 of polling. The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi seat in the Jammu region recorded the overall highest voting percentage at 75.29.
Ashwani Sharma spoke to the people of Jammu and tried to know their grievances and the important poll issues in Jammu. How their lives have changed post article 370?
Reporter: Ashwani Sharma
Camera: Suresh K Pandey
Editor: Sudhanshu
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With a significant voter turnout of 61.38% in phase 1 and 54.11% in phase 2 of polling. The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi seat in the Jammu region recorded the overall highest voting percentage at 75.29.
Ashwani Sharma spoke to the people of Jammu and tried to know their grievances and the important poll issues in Jammu. How their lives have changed post article 370?
Reporter: Ashwani Sharma
Camera: Suresh K Pandey
Editor: Sudhanshu
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00:00This is Ashwini Sharma reporting for Outlook magazine from Jammu.
00:04And right now I am standing at the bank of river Tavi.
00:09And this river which flows down the Jammu and divides old Jammu and new developing Jammu
00:18of Jammu and Kashmir.
00:20The sentiments in Jammu has been by and large against the government because for nine years
00:26there has not been an elected government.
00:28The people really want an elected government in Jammu and Kashmir.
00:33And especially the voice of Jammu is to be heard by the new government.
00:38So we are here to get the feel of the people of Jammu.
01:28The business community in Jammu particularly which is represented by
01:58the Chamber of Commerce has been asking for restoration of Darbar move.
03:28The sentiments in Jammu as I said is that the Jammu's voice should be heard and Jammu
03:40should not be ignored in the matters of development, employment and other issues.
03:58Jammu is a blind spot.
04:58There is some sense of disrespect against the government that after abrogation of Article 370
05:06the jobs are going to the people from the other states and other parts of India.
05:14So Jammu is not getting a due representation.
05:29There is no place here.
05:31If someone marries off their son, there is no place there.
05:36So there is a lack of representation.
05:37We are ashamed.
05:39The Kashmiri Pandit is ashamed from all sides.
05:41No government has done our work.
05:44We had a lot of hope from the government, from the BJP.
05:48We were waiting for so many years.
05:49Every person watches the news that it will be said today, it will be said today.
05:54But till now they have not fixed anything for us.
05:57We are so ashamed that there is nothing to say in the BJP government.
06:27The issues in elections are so many because the elections being held in Jammu and Kashmir
06:51after nine years.
06:52There is an issue of security.
06:54There is an issue of targeted militants killing and people want peace in the Jammu region
06:59so that the development is pushed.
08:23The tourists are coming less.
08:25The traders here have a big problem.
08:29Along with that, many other expenses have increased.
08:32Earlier there was no electricity bill, there was no parking, there was no water tax.
08:41Now all these things have been fixed that they have to come, they have to give.
08:47People's earnings have run out.
08:48If we talk about the business here, then the market situation here is not very good.
08:52There are no big factories here, there is no industry.
08:57This whole area depends on tourists.
09:01Tourists will keep coming here and the people here will keep surviving.
09:07The most important thing about the BJP is that there is absolute peace from here to Ghati.
09:13There is no such thing that earlier the atmosphere was bad.
09:18We used to come to Kashmir at night.
09:20If we talk about ourselves, there is a Kashmir hotel here on Residency Road.
09:25So at 9 o'clock at night, Jammu used to be completely quiet.
09:30And if you had to go out to buy something, you had to take off your clothes and leave.
09:36Because there were orders for the shoot.
09:38And today I see that the sale is open from 11 o'clock to 12 o'clock.
09:43The polling on October 1st is going to be a very defining moment.
09:49What role Jammu plays in deciding the next format of the government and who could be
09:55the Chief Minister of the new government.
09:58There are the BJP in the election fray.
10:00The National Conference has a tie-up with the Congress party.
10:04And there are so many parties and independents contesting in Kashmir.
10:09But here we are talking about what Jammu feels about the elections.