Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar connected Wednesday (September 24, 2024) described the ongoing Assembly polls successful Jammu and Kashmir arsenic "history successful the making", saying radical are lasting successful agelong queues extracurricular polling booths astatine places wherever calls were erstwhile fixed to boycott the antiauthoritarian exercise.
Taking to reporters, successful New Delhi, arsenic the 2nd signifier of polling was nether mode connected 26 seats successful the Union Territory, Mr. Kumar said 100% CCTV sum is disposable for this signifier and 1 could spot youngsters, women and elder citizens patiently lasting successful queues, awaiting their crook to workout their franchise.
"It is simply a festival of democracy. Voting is taking spot successful areas wherever it did not instrumentality spot earlier.... There were calls for disruption and boycott successful the past.... It is simply a lasting ovation for democracy," the CEC said successful the beingness of chap predetermination commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu.
Mr. Kumar said past is successful the making successful Jammu and Kashmir and its interaction volition beryllium felt for a agelong clip arsenic helium lauded the enthusiastic information of the voters successful the canvass process.
Published - September 25, 2024 04:39 p.m. IST
