Samba: Vowing to participate in the developmental policies concerning their backward hamlets, residents of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday voted for empowerment of the grass root level democracy, ignoring separatists' call for boycott.
"I have voted for empowerment of making decision regarding my basic needs - road, water supply, power supply, ration," 37-year-old Swami Raj said after casting his vote in the first phase of JK Panchayat elections at a polling station in the outskirts of Samba, 45 km from Jammu.
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05:15 PM, Apr 13, 2011
