*SRINAGAR: People of central Kashmir completely rejected the second phaseof the so-called elections enacted by India on Thursday, Kashmir MediaService reported.*
As per details, 90 polling booths saw no voting in the election held forthe Srinagar constituency of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the IndianParliament.
The Srinagar constituency recorded zero turnout in as many as 50 pollingbooths. The majority of these booths were located in Eidgah, Khanyar, HabbaKadal and Batamaloo areas of Srinagar. Many booths recorded a single digitvoting percentage with Eidgah at 3.3 per cent by the end of the polling,KMS reported.
The polling staff, tired of waiting for someone to turn up, was seenbasking in the sun for most of the time. “No one turned up to vote at anyof the polling booths here. We have been waiting for the voters, but no onecame here,” an official at the polling station said.
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Outside the polling station, a few youth said that the whole area had swornto boycott the polls in view of recent killings of citizens at the hands ofIndian troops.