Jammu, Sept 17: About 683 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), in which the fate of 50 candidates from Rajouri and Poonch were sealed in the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir polls, are being taken to district headquarters to be kept in strong rooms till the counting is taken up on October 10, official sources said here today.
As many as 346 EVMs used in three assembly segments of Poonch-Haveli, Mendhar and Surankote will be kept in Seshmahal in Poonch while 337 EVMs used in Nowshera, Darhal, Rajouri and Kalakote segments will be kept in government degree college in Rajouri town, they said.
While 17 aspirants are in the fray in three assembly segments in Poonch, 33 candidates, including two MLAs, are in the fray in four segments of Rajouri district.
An estimated 46 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise in yesterday's polls during which isolated incidents of violence were reported.
Bureau Report