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- ↑ "JKAP demands immediate evacuation of labourers from outside J&K – Press Trust Of Kashmir" . Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ↑ "Jammu & Kashmir 2014". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 13 November 2021.