Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 21: About 13.01 lakh electorates were eligible to exercise their right to franchise for April 24 election in Anantnag-Pulwama Lok Sabha seat, where 12 candidates including PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and sitting National Conference MP Dr Mehboob Beg were in the fray. Campaigning for the seat will end at 6 pm tomorrow.
The Anantnag constituency was based on four districts and 16 Assembly segments. It would be first seat in the Kashmir Valley, which would go to polls in third phase of polling in the State on April 24. In first two phases, two Lok Sabha seats of Jammu region-Jammu-Poonch and Udhampur-Doda had gone to polls on April 10 and 17 respectively.
Official documents revealed that a total of 13,01,142 electorates were eligible for voting in Anantnag Lok Sabha seat including 6,83,825 males and 6,16,095 females apart from 1483 Service voters and 39 others.
The constituency has significant number of 27,235 migrant electorates including 13702 males and 13533 females.
Twelve candidate in fray for Anantnag Lok Sabha seat included Mehbooba Mufti (PDP), Dr Mehboob Beg (NC), Dr Tanvir Maqbool Dar (Aam Aadmi Party), Mushtaq Ahmad Malik (BJP), Mohammad Sharif (BSP). Syed Abid Ahmad Shah (JKNPP), Asif Jeelani (All India Forward Block), Ghulam Nabi Shah (Samajwadi Party), Mohammad Yaqoob Rather (All J&K Republican Party), Mohammad Yousuf Ganie (Ambedkar Samaj Party), Tanveer Hussain Khan and Abdul Ahad Mir (both Independents).
Taking no chances, the authorities have declared 675 polling stations as hyper sensitive, 685 as sensitive and 265 as normal in a total of 1615 polling stations spread of 1119 locations.
The Anantnag-Pulwama Lok Sabha seat is spread over four districts including Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam and Shopian. Anantnag district has highest number of six Assembly segments including Anantnag, Dooru, Kokernag, Shangus, Bijbehara and Pahalgam while Pulwama district has four Assembly constituencies, which included Tral, Pampore, Pulwama and Rajpura.
Kulgam district too has four Assembly segments, which are Noorabad, Kulgam, Homshalibugh and Devsar while Shopian district comprised two segments only including Wachi and Shopian.
Anantnag district has highest number of about 4.77 lakh electorates followed by Pulwama district, which has 3.22 lakh voters.
Kulgam has 3.22 lakh electorates while Shopian district has just 1.55 lakh votes.
Similarly, Anantnag district has highest number of 622 polling stations spread over 406 locations while Pulwama has 408 polling stations spread over 296 locations. Kulgam has 389 polling stations spread over 273 locations while Shopian has 196 polling stations spread over 144 locations.
Pulwama district has highest number of 236 hyper sensitive polling stations followed by 198 in Anantnag, 183 in Shopian and 58 in Kulgam. There are 345 sensitive polling stations in Anantnag, 155 in Kulgam, 13 in Shopian and 172 in Pulwama.
None of the polling stations in Pulwama and Shopian districts are normal while Kulgam has 176 and Anantnag 89 normal polling stations, sources said.
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