Border people to cast vote without fear
Tribune News Service

Jhangar-Nowshera (Rajouri), November 22
It will be different election for the thousands of people living along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Nowshera area.

Unlike 2002 elections, when they were transported by the local election authorities from the migrant camps at various places in Nowshera after being dislocated from their native places near the LoC, this time around these people will cast their votes from their homes.

There are roughly about 5,000 voters in these areas of Laam, Ladoka, Kalsiyaan, Bhawani, Ser and Makri.

Elated Ajay Kumar, resident of Sarya near LoC, says: “This time we will cast our votes from our homes.”

However, Kumar said the successive governments have done little for them. "We have been dislocated more than four times since Independence, no one cares for us. Every time we constructed our houses, they are destroyed in shelling. The government has not compensated us for the losses we suffered due to tension along the LoC,” rues Kumar. But we hope the representative we elect will do something for us, he adds. Another resident Sat Paul Sharma, former Sarpanch of Jhangar, echoed similar views.