Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Dec 12: Among the 52,898 migrant voters in 16 Assembly segments of Kashmir Valley which are going to polls in the fourth phase of polling on December 14, only 20,955 have filled up the M Forms to cast their vote.
As per the official data, 16 constituencies spread over Central Kashmir district of Srinagar and South Kashmir districts of Anantnag and Shopian have a total number of 52,898 votes, while the M Forms have been filled up by 20955 migrant voters only which is much less than half of the total number of voters.
While eight constituencies of Srinagar district including Habbakadal, Amirakadal, Hazratbal, Idgah, Khanyar, Sonawar and Batamallo has a total number of 30,773 migrant voters, the six constituencies of Anantnag district including Anantnag Assembly segment, Dooru, Kokernag, Shangus, Bijbehara and Pahalgam has a total number of 18398 voters.
The two constituencies of Shopian district including Assembly segment of Wachi and Shopian has a total number of 3727 votes.
Out of all 47 Assembly segments of Kashmir Valley, Habbakadal Assembly segment has highest number of 16,271 migrant voters which is followed by Bijbehara in Anantang district which has 5056 migrant voters.
Assembly segment of Amirakadal in Srinagar has 4560 votes while Anantang Assembly segment has 4012 migrant votes. Batamallo Assembly segment in Srinagar district has 3762 votes while Sonawar Assembly segment in the same district has 1092 migrant voters.
Zadibal Assembly segment in Srinagar has lowest number of 421 migrant votes while Idgah has 723 votes. Hazratbal Assembly segment in Srinagar district has 2543 votes while Khanyar Assembly segment has 1401 migrant votes.
In Anantnag district, Dooru has 2121 migrant voters while Kokernag has 2977 votes, Shangus Assembly segment in the same district has 2355 votes and Pahalgam Assembly Segment has 1877 votes.
In Shopian district, Wachi Assembly segment has 2048 migrant votes while Shopian Assembly Constituency has 1679 migrant voters.
However as per data, out of 16271 voters, only 4720 migrants have opted for casting their vote by filling up their M Forms in Habbakadal Constituency.
In Bijbehara, 2392 migrants filled up their M Forms to cast the vote while in Hazratbal 570 filled up their M Forms. In Zadibal 129 migrants have filled up their M Forms while 152 migrants have opted for casting their vote for Idgah Assembly Segment. In Khanyar 968 migrants have filled up their M Forms while in Amirakadal 1329 have opted for casting their vote.
Besides, 372 migrants have opted for Sonawar Constituency, 805 for Batamallo,1149 for Wachi, 828 for Shopian, 1618 for Anantnag, 1112 for Dooru, 1783 for Kokernag, 1609 for Shangus and 1419 for Pahalgam Assembly segments respectively.
Some migrant leaders including BJP candidate from Habbakadal Moti Kaul and Party candidate from Bijbehara Assembly, segment P N Pandita have accused the Omar Abdullah Government of not leaving any stone unturned in debarring the Kashmiri migrants from casting their vote.
Mr Kaul said out of 16000 votes only 5500 forms were entertained while the majority of the forms have been rejected for unknown reasons. He alleged that administration has played the dirty game by rejecting the M Forms.
P N Pandita said that maximum migrant votes in his constituency are also missing as administration played a spoil sport.
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