Not a single candidate is contesting polls in nearly 29 percent wards of the urban local bodies in Kashmir. Official data available with Kashmir Post reveals that as many as 178 wards are without any candidate in the municipal bodies of Kashmir Valley. The number of wards in the Valley’s 40 urban bodies is around 598. According to data, the maximum number of such wards is in south Kashmir, which was the epicentre of the 2016 unrest triggered by the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. The region has witnessed…
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