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recovery of untraced bodies. Emotional duas were made by the religious preachers for the recovery of those untraced. Locals at Gandbal said they are hopeful that the other two bodies will also be found.
An eyewitness said that as the body of Haziq reached his native area Gandbal, people irrespective of age and colour flooded the little boy’s residence amid shrieks and cries while as women were seen wailing. The Gandbal locality of city has been in a state of mourning since past 11 days, owing to the tragic boat capsize incident that claimed seven lives including little Haziq. The father-son duo continue to remain missing under waters.
Regarding the retrieval of Haziq’s body, a local, who was part of the sand extraction team at Zero Bridge, Rajbagh, said that they saw the body on the top of the water floating near Rajbagh area on Friday afternoon. “Soon, I along with other men rushed towards the body and handed it to the police, who then took it to the hospital, where medical formalities were done after which the body was handed over to the boy’s family,” he said.
The two bodies of Showkat Ahmed and Farhan Parray continue to remain untraced. Meanwhile, hundreds of people attended the funeral of Haziq at Gandbal and bid his last goodbye. People from various parts of Srinagar had reached Gandbal to participate in the funeral of the little boy. station at this age. I have always voted. This journey is continuing even today at the age of 102,” Haji said Haji is one of 666 persons above the age of 100 years who are registered to vote in the Jammu Lok Sabha constituency.
The Jammu Lok Sabha seat is one of the 89 constituencies in 13 states and Union territories across the country going to polls on Friday.
A total of 17,80,835 voters, including 9,21,095 male and 8,59,712 female voters, besides 28 third-gender people, are enrolled in the Jammu Lok Sabha constituency, the officials said.
Early morning, voters were seen heading for the polling stations before polling began, officials said, adding that long lines of voters have been seen in various polling stations in Jammu city.
The sitting MP Jugal Kishore Sharma of BJP is eyeing a third term after winning the seat for BJP in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
This is the first major electoral battle after the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019. developmental activities. “We are farmers and want everlasting peace between the two countries so that we can tend to our land on the zero line without any fear. Peace means opportunities and education for our children,” another voter, Swarn Lal said. Long queues of voters were seen outside polling stations in the Suchetgarh assembly segment, where 41.85 per cent of voters had exercised their franchise till 1 pm.