9 takeaways from high voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir

Anger over abrogation of Article 370, need for local representation, job crisis and inflation among key reasons

Update: 2024-05-30 01:00 GMT
People wait in queues to cast their votes at a polling booth during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections at Chitragam in Shopian district of South Kashmir. File photo: PTI

Tauqeer, 21, hails from a picturesque hamlet in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. He cast his vote for the first time when polls were conducted in the valley on May 20. What convinced him to go to the polling booth early in the morning to get his finger inked was a passionate discussion with his father at dinner the previous night.

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