Poll preparations completed, expecting huge participation: CEO Pole

Srinagar, Aug 31: Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Pandurang K Pole Saturday said that all the preparations for the elections have been completed and that he was expecting large participation of youth and others in the democratic process.

“Elections belong to everyone, be it tribals or urbans, youth or women, elderly or first time voters. It is a festival of democracy. All arrangements are in place and election teams are on way to their polling booths,” he said, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO)

Pole said that campaigning will pick up now as the date of filing  nomination papers and withdrawal of papers is over. “We urge people to participate in large numbers. We will ensure free and fair polls,” he said while talking to reporters on the side-lines of a function at Altaf Memorial College Kilam, Kulgam district.