Contingency Plan in place as Balakote, Nowshera, hit by shelling, vote today
Contingency Plan in place as Balakote, Nowshera, hit by shelling, vote today
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 12: Thirty one Territorial Constituencies will go to polling in Phase-VI of the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow for which 7.48 lakh electorates are eligible to exercise their right to franchise.
In Jammu division, 17 seats spread over nine districts will have voting tomorrow which include Balakote in Poonch and Nowshera in Rajouri whose number of polling stations fall well within shelling and firing range on the Line of Control with Pakistan for which the concerned district administration was keeping the fingers crossed as the Pakistani troops resorted to shelling and firing in Balakote this evening for about half an hour.