Polling underway for Legislative Council seats in J&K

During the vote for the Legislative Council seats in J & K Srinagar: Amid high security, voting is now underway for the seats of the Legislative Council oven Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat under the quota. Surveys for reserved seats are held after a gap of 38 years, Panchayat elections in the state workforce last year were more than three decades a gap. "Polling began at 9:00 am and continue until 5:00 p.m.," Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Asgar Samoon said. Like many panchayat members that decide the fate of 37 candidates 33.450. Election officials said during questioning was quickly in some areas of Jammu, the response to date has-been in the valley due to poor cold early morning. National Conference and Congress - partners in the ruling coalition - Contested elections shall be jointly and commissioned two candidates each have stock for the four seats. The opposition parties, including the PDP and the Panthers Party, Have you submitted candidates for four seats while the Bharatiya Janata Party Challenge is on three to two seats in the Jammu region and the other Valley Kashmir. The Bahujan Samaj Party A aussi presented three candidates. As many panchayat members will elect two MLCS 15.628 in Jammu division on a total of 21 candidates, while 17,912 members vote to elect two members of the 16 candidates of the division of Kashmir. Tight security arrangements put in place were the paramilitary and police personnel deployed state in sensitive areas to deal with any untoward incident. Up to 27 companies of CRPF and 40 companies of police and armed police were deployed to ensure security and the decline in the vote. Strengthening security in the has-been of recent incidents of militancy. The deployment of police and CRPF has-been completed in most of the polling stations which will take place tomorrow, they said. Counting of votes will take 6 December and EVM will offset all the headquarters of the district of Jammu and Srinagar on December 4 and 5.