Updated 25 October 2019 at 22:03 IST

PM hails J&K, Ladakh voters in local tongues on historic voter turnout

PM Modi has again reiterated his message in three different languages which are Urdu, Punjabi, and Ladakhi which is usually written with the Tibetan script

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Earlier on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the Block Development Council (BDC) elections which were conducted in Jammu and Kashmir. PM Modi has again reiterated his message in three different languages which are Urdu, Punjabi and Ladakhi which is usually written with the Tibetan script. PM Modi took to Twitter to congratulate the people for the historic BDC polls. Here are the tweets by PM Modi:

News that would make every Indian proud!

For the first time since 1947, Block Development Council elections were held in Jammu, Kashmir, Leh and Ladakh on the 24th.

The polls witnessed a historic turnout of 98%. There were over 1080 candidates in the fray in 310 blocks.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 25, 2019

PM tweets in Urdu

PM Modi's tweet in Urdu which translates to, "This news is a matter of pride for every Indian! For the first time since 1947, Block Development Council elections were held in Jammu, Kashmir, Leh and Ladakh on the 24th. 98% of the voters voted in these elections."

یہ خبر ہر ہندوستانی کے لئے باعث فخر ہے! 1947 سے لے کر اب تک کی مدت میں پہلی مرتبہ جموں ، کشمیر، لیہہ اور لداخ میں 24 تاریخ کو بلاک ترقیاتی کونسل انتخابات منعقد ہوئے۔ ان انتخابات میں 98 فیصد کی تاریخی تعداد میں ووٹروں نے حصہ لیا۔
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 25, 2019

'There was no violence'

I am delighted to share that the BDC polls in Jammu, Kashmir, Leh and Ladakh were conducted in a very peaceful manner. There was no violence.

This shows the people’s unwavering faith in democracy and the importance they accord to grassroots level governance.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 25, 2019

PM Modi's tweet in Punjabi

मिगी एह दस्सने च बडी खुशी ऐ जे जम्मू, कश्मीर, लेह ते लद्दाख च BDC चुनाव बड़े शांतिपूर्ण ढंगै कन्नै सम्पन्न होए। कोई हिंसा नेईं होई। एह दस्सदा ऐ जे लोकें दा लोकतंत्र च विश्वास पक्का ऐ ते भलेआँ हेठले स्तर पर प्रशासन गी ओ महत्व दिन्दे न।
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 25, 2019

'It would make India's Parliament proud'

It would make India’s Parliament proud that due to their historic decision in August this year, the people of J&K have been able to exercise their democratic right with exceptional enthusiasm, as seen in the historic turnout of 98% that too without violence or disturbance.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 25, 2019

འདི༌ལོ༌ཨ༌གསྟ༌ནང༌འཛོམ༌ར༌གོང༌ཡོག༌གཉིས༌ཀའི༌ཐག༌ཆད༌ལེན༌མཁན༌བོ༌ལ༌བདེན༌པ ༌དཔལ༌རྔམ༌ཚོར༌བྱས༌དང༌ཇམ༌མུ༌ཁ༌ཆུལ༌དང༌ལ༌དྭགས༌ཀྱི༌མི༌མང༌ཀུན༌གྱིས༌དངོས༌ལེན༌མཛད༌དེ༌འོས༌ཤོག༌98-/-ཞི༌བདེ༌ཚུལ༌ལ༌བཀོལ༎
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 25, 2019

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Successful BDC polls

BDC elections were held on Thursday, which was followed by the declaration of results in the evening. While independent candidates won 217 seats, BJP and Congress candidates won 81 seats and one seat respectively. On the other hand, the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party won 8 seats. There were 26,629 electors in total across the 22 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. According to the J&K Electoral Officer, Shailendra Kumar, no untoward incident was reported. In fact, voter turnout was as high as 98.3% with Srinagar recording a 100% turnout. This election was held using the ballot boxes. However, parties such as the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) boycotted the polls.

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