Srinagar, Nov 14: Aga Muntazir Mehdi of the Peoples Democratic Party has taken a small lead of 32 votes as third round of voting gets underway in Budgam by-poll results.

The counting of votes for bypoll in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam began at 8 am on Friday, officials said.

As counting gets underway for the third round, Mehdi had polled 3206 votes followed by Aga Mahmood with 3174 votes.

In the first and second rounds, Aga Mahmood of NC was leading by over 400 votes.

The counting, which would decide the fate of 17 candidates, is taking place at the Government Higher Secondary School in Budgam, they said.

Over 50 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise in the bypoll held on Tuesday.

The final voting percentage was 50.01 per cent.

The Budgam assembly constituency had arou

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