As polling for the second phase of elections begins in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged all the electors to vote in large numbers in order to "strengthen democracy."
The demonstrators expressed their frustration, highlighting the disparity between their situation and that of their counterparts in other parts of Pakistan, who have already been granted regularized positions.
Two people were killed and one was injured after a poll duty vehicle met with an accident near Tuksan in the Gulabgarh area of Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district on Tuesday, an official said.
Locals and members of the Tahafuz Wheat Movement staged a protest outside the Gilgit Press Club in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan, voicing their concerns over a significant reduction in the wheat quota and the distribution of substandard flour in the region, according to Pamir Times.
Ahead of the second phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir on September 25, the polling parties of Srinagar collected their electronic voting machines (EVMS) and dispatched for their respective polling stations on Tuesday.
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to lose the upcoming Assembly elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir and exuded confidence in the opposition alliance, the INDIA bloc, winning in all poll-bound states.
As Jammu and Kashmir will undergo the second phase of assembly polls on September 25, the security has been tightened in the Rajouri district of the territory.
Voting for the 90-member legislative assembly in Haryana will be held on October 5. Votes will be counted on October 8 along with that in Jammu and Kashmir.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tejasvi Surya on Monday expressed confidence that his party will win the Jammu and Kashmir assembly election with a full majority and form the government.
Responding to Rahul Gandhi's rally in Poonch on Monday, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that the BJP-led government had promised to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and said the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha will take credit by saying it was he who put the pressure.
While Congress' manifesto for the Assembly election is silent on the Article 370, its bigger alliance partner NC promised in its manifesto restoration of Article 370 .