In Ahmednagar, children write to their parents asking them to vote in Lok Sabha elections
The Ahmednagar and Shirdi Lok Sabha seats, which will vote on May 13, come under the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.
There are 36 candidates from the Ahmednagar Lok Sabha seat and 22 from the Shirdi parliamentary constituency. (Representative/ Express file photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee) As part of its initiative to boost voter turnout, the Ahmednagar district administration has asked children to write letters convincing their parents to cast their votes in the Lok Sabha elections.
Ahmednagar District Collector Siddharam Salimath said the campaign, Mazhi Lokshahi, Mazha Falak (My Democracy, My Slate), seeks to remind parents, who would visit schools on May 1 to collect their children’s result cards, of their civic duty to vote.
“We want to increase voter turnout and hence have involved the education department, private schools, and colleges urging them to make parents take an oath that they will vote. Rallies have been held especially in villages and students have written personal letters to their parents,” Salimath told The Indian Express.
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