Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday encouraged citizens to vote in the upcoming elections for vibrant and healthy democracy.
Addressing a National Voters Day function at College of Education, Srinagar, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Vijay Kumar Bidhuri encouraged citizens to exercise their right of vote in upcoming elections for vibrant and healthy democracy.
Giving a brief history of the election process, Bidhuri said that during the pre-democracy period the struggle for power was never peaceful.
We should derive pride on the fact that we are the largest democracy in the world, he said and added the election process promotes smooth transition of power in a democratic country.
While commenting on the theme of this year’s ‘National Voters Day’ which is ‘Nothing Like Voting, I vote for sure.’, he encouraged all participants to vote in upcoming elections to exercise their democratic right.
He mentioned various developmental achievements of recent periods, particularly projects completed across the city including SSCL Projects and successfully hosting of G20 Summit and religious festivals.
Meanwhile, the Divisional Commissioner shared the significance of the Republic Day Celebration and invited all to the main R-Day function at Bakshi Stadium while requesting participants to be seated in the Stadium before 9.00 AM.
Bidhuri also administered the Voters Pledge to the participants. He also distributed EPICS to newly registered electors and appreciation certificates to officials and BLOs.
Earlier, SDM stated that 17,000 new electors were added during the current phase of registration for the electoral process.
