Number of votes cast in Burhan Wani’s village- 0
Srinagar, May 07: The number of votes cast from the village of Burhan Wani was zero in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
In
the
native
place
of
the
Pulwama
suicide
bomber,
the
voting
percentage
stood
at
15.
Zero
polling
was
witnessed
from
the
villages
of
other
top
terrorist
commanders
in
south
Kashmir,
the
hotbed
of
militancy
in
the
valley.
Wani's Shareefabad village in the Tral area decided to give a miss to the elections as no one from the village went to exercise their franchise.
Just 15 votes (of the total 350) were polled In Gundibagh, a village that hit the international headlines on February 14 after one of its residents Adil Dar became a suicide bomber for Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group and triggered a blast in an explosive-laden car near a CRPF convoy killing 40 personnel, the officials said.
The incident on February 14 dramatically escalated the tension between India and Pakistan.
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Also, zero voting was recorded from Noorabad, the village of Zakir Musa, the so-called chief of Ansar-Gazawat-ul-Hind terror group; Beighpora, the village of the incumbent Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo; and Sheikhpora, the village of Mudassir Khan, the mastermind of February 14 terror strike, said the officials.
Wani's killing in an encounter with security forces in 2016 had triggered a massive unrest in the valley that left nearly 100 people dead and thousand others, including security forces, injured.
Elsewhere, deserted roads and the overwhelming presence of security personnel marked elections in the militancy strongholds of Shopian and Pulwama districts, part of the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat, that recorded three per cent voting with over 25 per cent stations not recording any polling at all.
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