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IN A boost to inclusivity and accessibility, the Election Commission introduced home voting facility for the elderly and differently abled for the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. However, 92-year-old veteran lawyer K K Venugopal would have none of it. When election agents approached the former Attorney General for India, a South Delhi voter, to opt for home voting (the scheme is for those over 85 years), the nonagenarian is learnt to have said that he will go to the polling booth and cast his vote.
Polling in Delhi is scheduled for May 25.
Indira Factor
The Telangana Congress is leaving no stone unturned to win back Medak constituency, once represented by former PM Indira Gandhi, which has become a BRS fortress in the last two decades. It has sought the help of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who, the leaders in Telangana believe, could bring back the memories of her grandmother and influence the voters.
State minister Konda Surekha, who has been given the charge of the constituency, is confident that the party candidate, Neelam Madhu, will win the seat the Congress lost to BRS (then TRS) in 2001. Besides Priyanka, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will also campaign in Medak, which goes to polls on May 13. Indira had won the seat with a margin over three lakh votes in 1980 and represented it till her assassination in 1984.
Novel Initiative
Unlike regular employees, those working on contract in government departments lack facilities such as access to CGHS. To address this challenge, the Indian Audit & Accounts Officers’ Wives Association (IAAOWA) came up with a unique idea. It organised a three-day (April 27 to 29) health camp called Swasthya 2024 for contractual employees currently working in the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in New Delhi.
Around 475 employees underwent health screening during the first phase of the camp. About 800 workers will be covered during the second phase. It is learnt that IAAOWA patron Dr Smita Murmu, wife of CAG Girish Chandra Murmu, has been instrumental in designing the health scheme for the employees. At the concluding function on Monday, She interacted with the doctors and appreciated their dedication towards social work.
