Srinagar: Counting of votes is underway for south Kashmir’s Anantnag assembly constituency where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is one of the eight contesting candidates.
Eight candidates including Mehbooba Mufti of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hilal Ahmad Shah of the Congress and Iftikhar Hussain Misgar of the National Conference are contesting.
The constituency has over 84,000 eligible voters and a total of nearly 28,500 voted on Wednesday despite poll boycott called by separatist politicians and militants.
The by-election in Anantnag was necessitated because of the death of the then chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who represented the constituency in the 87-member legislative house.
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