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Devidas Gupta in Zurich
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday voiced satisfaction over the peaceful conduct of the first phase of assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir.
"It [the election] was free and fair with a reasonably good [voter] turnout," he said in Zurich, where he arrived on his way back from a five-day visit to New York.
Vajpayee spoke over the phone to J&K Governor G K Saxena and inquired about the election, official sources said.
Vajpayee will leave for New Delhi on Tuesday.
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