The "tentative turnout" was [only] 6.5 percent, Shantmanu said, adding that a decision on re-polling in violence-hit areas would be taken later. Even a poll booth was also set ablaze.
Around seven per cent votes were polled during Sunday's by-poll which marked the lowest voter turnout in the last 27 years.
There were 190 incidents of stone pelting, 120 polling boths were made dysfunctional, 24 EVMs were looted, two schools burnt down, eight people were killed and 150 others were injured in Srinagar yesterday.
Violence was reported from Budgam area in central Kashmir, which is a part of the three districts - Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal- voting in the elections.
Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Sunday when police clashed with protesters during a by-election in Srinagar in India's disputed Kashmir region, an official said.
"I appeal to the election commission that the polls be postponed keeping in view the situation in the valley".
Mobs attacked the polling stations, damaging the EVMs and ransacking the polling stations, at almost 100 places in Budgam.
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Congress spokesperson Sushmita Dev said the party has also urged the Election Commission not to postpone or cancel Anantnag assembly bypoll.
Encounters, protests and killing of civilians did not stop this year after the 2016 unrest.
The Chief Minister said she has consistently held that peaceful means and not violence are the only way ahead in getting state out of the present difficulties.
Ruling PDP chief spokesman Mehboob Beg said it is for the Election Commission to decide whether situation in Valley is conducive for holding of polling.
Meanwhile, the separatist Hurriyat leadership, under Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, and Yasin Malik, has urged people to boycott voting in the South Kashmir, which is set to go for polls on 12 April. Shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut, while attendance in banks and government offices was low.
Mobile internet remained suspended for the fourth day today in the Kashmir valley, where Broadband service of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has resumed after remaining banned from April 8 and 9 midnight.
They said public transport was back on the roads in the city.
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