{"id":16716,"date":"2024-05-12T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=16716"},"modified":"2024-05-12T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:02:08","slug":"amid-unprecedented-security-setup-srinagar-ls-constituency-goes-to-polls-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/amid-unprecedented-security-setup-srinagar-ls-constituency-goes-to-polls-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Unprecedented Security Setup, Srinagar LS Constituency Goes To Polls On Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, May 12: The stage is set for the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/lok-sabha-polls-will-convey-jk-peoples-expression-to-rest-of-india-aga-syed-ruhullah-mehdi\/\">Srinagar Parliamentary constituency<\/a> which goes to polls on Monday amid unprecedented security arrangements put in place.A total of 17,47,810 lakh voters including 8,75,938 male and 8,71,808 female voters besides 64 third gender electorates are eligible to exercise their franchise at 2,135 polling stations across the five districts of Srinagar, Pulwama, Budgam, Ganderbal, and Shopian.<br \/>\nThere are around 11682 Persons with Disability and 705 persons above the age of 100 years who will also be exercising their franchise, read a communiqu received from the office of Chief Electoral Officer, J&amp;K.<br \/>\nA total of 24 candidates are in the fray and among them the prominent ones are National Conference Candidate Aga Syed Rohulla Mehdi, Peoples Democratic Party youth leader Waheed-Ur-Rehman Parra, and Apni Party\u2019s Ashraf Mir who are contesting from the <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/dpap-announces-candidate-from-srinagar-lok-sabha-seat\/\">Srinagar parliamentary<\/a> seat.<br \/>\nThe seat is dominated by the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference party, which has won 10 out of the 13 Lok Sabha elections. The only national party to ever win the Lok Sabha elections in Srinagar is Congress, which emerged victorious in the 1996 elections.<br \/>\nThe election staff including Presiding Officers has been stationed in every polling station. In total, more than 8,500 polling staff, including reserves, will be deployed on duty on the polling day.<br \/>\nThe voting will take place from 7.00 AM to 6.00 PM and before that, there will be a mock poll in the polling stations in the presence of the polling agents. Also, the voting will continue even after 6.00 PM, if the voter\u2019s queue is still there in the Polling Station premises to exercise their right to vote.<br \/>\nThere will be 20 polling booths managed by women (also called as pink polling stations), 18 polling booths manned by specially-abled persons, and 17 by youths.<br \/>\nAll polling stations in phase 4 will have CCTV cameras for live webcasting to the control rooms established at the District and CEO offices. Few polling stations fall in communication shadow areas. Suitable alternate arrangements by providing Satellite Phones, Wireless sets, and Special Runners have been put in place around a few polling stations that fall in communication shadow areas.<br \/>\nA three-tier security arrangement has been formulated outside every polling station to prevent any attempt to sabotage the polling process.<br \/>\nThe security forces will be also manning the roads and bylanes leading to the polling station to scuttle any mischievous attempt by the anti-national elements.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/dig-jsk-range-conducts-surprise-inspection-of-police-station-rs-pura\/\">Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Zone) V K Birdhi<\/a> said that all security measures for the smooth conduct of the Lok Sabha elections for Srinagar Parliamentary constituency scheduled for tomorrow have already been completed.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have already formulated a comprehensive security arrangement for the polling stations, locations, distribution centres and strong rooms under the prescribed security guidelines of ECI for the Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency\u201d, Birdhi told media in Srinagar on Sunday.He said \u201cA safe and secure environment has been established for the people so that they can come out to poll their franchise in a big way\u201d.<br \/>\nHe also highlighted the deployment of paramilitary forces, checkpoints, as well as Special Security District (SSD) and Field Security District (FSD) personnel.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the polling staff along with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and other poll materials were dispatched to their concerned polling stations under adequate security arrangements on Sunday<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16717\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16717\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-12-at-5.29.33-PM-300x190.png\" alt=\"Amid Unprecedented Security Setup, Srinagar LS Constituency Goes To Polls On Monday\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amid Unprecedented Security Setup, Srinagar LS Constituency Goes To Polls On Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, May 12: The stage is set for the prestigious Srinagar Parliamentary constituency which goes to polls on Monday amid unprecedented security arrangements put in place.A total of 17,47,810 lakh voters including 8,75,938 male and 8,71,808 female voters besides 64 third gender electorates are eligible to exercise their franchise at 2,135 polling stations across the 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