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JAMMU: Campaigning for the high-stakes Nagrota and Budgam Assembly by-election concluded on Sunday evening, with all candidates making their final appeals to voters ahead of polling on November 11.

The bypoll in Nagrota was necessitated by the death of BJP legislator Devender Singh Rana last year and has shaped up into a triangular contest among BJP’s Devyani Rana, National Conference’s (NC) Shamim Begum, and J&K National Panthers Party president Harsh Dev Singh.

The Aam Aadmi Party’s Joginder Singh, Apni Party’s Bodh Raj, and five others, including three independents, are also trying their luck from the constituency, which has 97,893 registered voters and 150 polling stations.

In Nagrota, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Minister Jitendra Singh joined the campai

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