People shout slogans during an anti-election rally in Hajan, some 37 kilometers north of Srinagar, summer capital of Indian controlled Kashmir, on Wednesday. Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (Kashmir separatist group) Muhammad Yasin Malik kicks off the election boycott campaign to fail the upcoming elections from Hajan on Wednesday. The seven-phase State legislative elections in Kashmir are scheduled from November 17 to December 24. --Xinhua