Omar Abdullah said low voter turnout in Srinagar district during second phase of voting for J&K Assembly polls was perhaps a people’s reaction to the Centre trying to project normalcy in the UT. His remarks came after second phase of polling saw a low voter turnout compared to first phase.

“To be honest, I was expecting higher turnout because there was no boycott call, there were attacks, there were no threats or intimidation of the voters. I feel Centre is also responsible for this. They tried to present the high voter turnout as signs of normalcy and as if the people had accepted the revocation of Article 370. Maybe this was a reaction from Srinagar because people of Srinagar do not want to send wrong signals,” Abdullah said.