Srinagar, April 22 -- District Anantnag is going to polls first in the three-phased
schedule for Anantnag Parliamentary constituency tomorrow (April 23).
The timing of the voting has been revised from 7 am to 4 pm.
The District is spread over six Assembly segments comprising
Anantnag, Dooru, Kokernag, Shangus, Bijbehara and Pahalgam.
This South Kashmir District has 529256 electors including
269603 males, 257540 females, 2102 service electors (2091 male and 11 female)
and 11 transgender voters. For smooth polling, the ECI has setup 714 polling
stations in the district.
Meanwhile, authorities since Saturday brought 100 additional
companies of paramilitary forces including SSB, ITBP and CRPF to Anantnag and
80 more are being deploye...