1.   Many began their day waking up voters by cruising through neighborhoods in election vans with loudspeakers blaring their appeals.

2.   Campaign jeeps belonging to the BJP and other parties speed up and down the city roads, blaring appeals for votes but no one seems to care.

3.   Loudhailers in mosques in the rural areas of the Kashmir Valley blared appeals to the people to vote, residents told AFP.

4.   Loud hailers located in mosques in the rural areas of the Kashmir Valley blared appeals to voters to cast their ballots, residents said.