Jitendra Singh casts his vote in Jammu

Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (MoS PMO) Dr. Jitendra Singh cast his vote in Jammu for the fifth and final phase of state assembly election on Saturday.

"People have come out in large numbers in support of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP); this is going to be a turning point in the political history of Jammu and Kashmir. Seeing the level of confidence among people and the morale of our party workers one can make out how the enthusiastic voters have reached here in large numbers to cast their vote for the BJP," said Singh.

Condemning yesterday's attack on BJP candidate from Nowshera constituency Ravinder Raina allegedly by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) workers, Singh said, "If any such kind of violence takes place amid any democratic process then somewhere or the other we have still not learnt enough to follow the basic principles of democracy."

He added that all the political parties should condemn it and said that the reason behind this attack could be that other political parties envy the kind of support the BJP is getting.

Moreover, reacting to the recent killing of school children in a terror attack in Peshawar, he said that a resolution was passed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke in the Lok Sabha. It's good that all the political parties condemned terrorism promoting from the soil of Pakistan.

In Jammu and Kashmir, the voting is taking place for 20 assembly seats in border districts of Jammu, Kathua and Rajouri. There are 213 candidates in the fray in this phase.

Overall 29.8 percent voting has been recorded in Jammu and Kashmir till noon.