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Voters pin high hopes
Tribune News Service

Poonch, November 17
The voters are hoping that their representatives will take care of their basic needs like development of the area, improved education facilities, healthcare, water and power supply.

“We don’t expect miracles from the representative we elect this time around. We are just hoping that at least he should bring development of the area and also voice our problems. Unemployment is a huge problem here so we expect that he will help in getting employment for the unemployed educated youth”, said 110-year-old Billu Khan who was waiting to cast his vote outside the polling station at Traranwali (C) in Bufliaz of the Surankote constituency.

Mehfroz Khan, who was casting vote for the first time, at the same polling station felt elated.“We are poor people and have not seen development at all. We are lacking basic amenities. As a student, I would expect that our representative will fight for getting a degree college at Bufliaz so that we can at least go for higher studies”.

It was not only the first-timers who had a hope for a better future, but people who had come to vote for the second time, too, expected good results coming out of the whole exercise in an honest representative.

The enthusiasm among the voters regarding the elections process was on expected line, but coming of a blind youth for voting summed up everything. “My two sisters and I are blind. Till this date we didn’t get anything from the government. I came to vote to fulfil my duty without any expectation from any one. I hope that whosoever he will be, but he will fulfil the aspirations of the people of our area”, said Sharief Khan, a blind.