Jammu and Kashmir DCC elections 2020 live updates: 51.76 % voter turnout recorded
Voting was done for the first phase of district development council (DDC) elections to Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Polling was held in total 43 constituencies – 25 in Kashmir and 18 in Jammu.
A resident of the remote Kota Top village at over 11,000 feet in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, 103-year-old Zaitona Bibi on Saturday said she has never missed casting her vote since 1957 and this District Development Council (DDC) election was no different. Helped by her 24-year-old great-granddaughter Rabia Bano, Zaitona braved cold winds to trek to the Gujjar Basti polling station in Kharangal Panchayat, around a kilometre from her house, to vote in the elections, the first after Jammu and Kashmir was reorganised into a union territory last year. (PTI)
