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This is an archive article published on May 17, 2024

Poll snippets: Home voting for differently abled, elderly begins in city

AAP leader and Minister Atishi held a ‘Sankalp Sabha’ in Trilokpuri on Thursday, where she accused the BJP of putting people through a “decade-long deceit and hollow promises”.

delhi BJPVeteran BJP leader V K Malhotra casts vote from home, in Delhi on Thursday. (Express File Photo)

To encourage and assist elderly and persons with disabilities (PWDs) to cast their votes, the chief electoral office (CEO) of Delhi on Thursday began the home voting facility in all the parliamentary constituencies for the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, which will continue till May 24.

Home voting, initiated for the first time, is with an aim to facilitate elderly voters — aged above 85 years — as well as PWD voters to exercise their “right to vote” for the polls. According to data shared by the CEO office, around 5,742 voters — mostly elderly persons — have applied for home voting. Delhi Chief Electoral Officer P Krishnamurthy said: “By providing this facility to senior citizens and PWDs… we aim to make the electoral process accessible to all and encourage greater participation.”

Will build HC in city: BJP’s Gurgaon pick

Sitting MP and Gurgaon Lok Sabha candidate of BJP Rao Inderjit Singh on Thursday said that he is pushing to establish a High Court in the city. Interacting with lawyers, the 74-year-old said that the process of establishing a separate HC for Haryana is under consideration and his efforts are on to establish it in the South Haryana city.

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On Thursday, Singh visited the district court in Gurgaon and said that the Gurgaon bar is the largest in the state. “All the problems that have come to my notice here have been attempted to be resolved diligently…,” he said.

A detour for BJP’s Swaraj at campaign

BJP New Delhi parliamentary constituency pick Bansuri Swaraj took a short detour during her campaign on Thursday, playing a game of badminton with youngsters at Ajmal Khan Road. She also appealed to them, asking them to ensure they go out to vote on May 25. Senior party leaders and other candidates fanned out across 87 district parks in the morning to appeal to morning walkers to vote for them.

Atishi holds poll sabha in Trilokpuri

AAP leader and Minister Atishi held a ‘Sankalp Sabha’ in Trilokpuri on Thursday, where she accused the BJP of putting people through a “decade-long deceit and hollow promises”. “People voted for the BJP thinking that inflation will reduce, and youth will get employment.

Five years passed and in 2019, people again voted for BJP thinking that if they give them five more years, maybe they will be able to do some work in that. But 10 years have passed, but there has been no change in the life of the common man. All the promises of BJP turned out to be lies and jumlabaazi,” she said at the gathering.

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