SRINAGAR, March 29 -- Election Commission of India on Thursday issued notification for the third phase of Lok Sabha polls in Kashmir's Anantnag Parliamentary constituency which is spanned in four south Kashmir districts and election being held in three phases.

Anantnag constituency has already made a record of being longest delayed bypoll since 1996.

The constituency was vacated by Mehbooba Mufti in June 2016 to become the chief minister following her father and PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's death. No bypoll could be held for the constituency and it surpassed the record in Manipur in 1998-99 when the 60-Singhat legislative assembly constituency was vacant for over a year due to a "poor law and order situation." The bypoll was not h...