Politics & Elections · India
NC, PDP blame Centre for lower turnout in second phase of elections in J&K
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NC vice-president Omar Abdullah said the Centre was at fault to project the high poll percentage in the first phase as normalcy and call it the effect of Article 370 removal. “I think the low voter turnout was the reaction to it in Srinagar,” he said.
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