Maharashtra Assembly polls: Pune voters offered freebies to boost turnout, student volunteers too chip in

In Baner, a section person offered escaped autorickshaw rides to the polling booth. Ashok Lokre, the autorickshaw operator who was tasked with the same, said determination has been non-stop request for rides since 7 am.

Deepak Pahilwani, a nonmigratory of Moshi successful Bhosari constituency of Pune, was among the voters who chose to workout their franchise successful the morning. He arrived astatine the polling presumption with his 21-day-old baby, woman and father. “Voting is important, truthful we came,” helium said.

At the corporation-run schoolhouse successful Borhadewadi successful Moshi, students person volunteered to assistance voters. Gauri Londhe and Ayesha Pathan said they person been helping radical to find their polling booths too guiding the differentially abled. “It is breathtaking to beryllium portion of this process,” they said.

Visually impaired voters Rajdeep Deshmukh and Amrita Khetria soon arrived astatine the Moshi school. “The physics voting machines person the numbers successful Braille and the ballot papers successful Braille springiness america the names, numbers, and parties of the candidates. We person not missed immoderate vote,” Deshmukh said.

The excitement of first-time voters was rather palpable. Abrar Ansari, a schoolhouse unit subordinate who arrived to formed his maiden vote, said that helium exercised his franchise to support his cardinal and law rights. “I formed my ballot for a campaigner who promotes unity and does not dispersed hatred based connected caste, class, oregon religion,” helium affirmed. Ansari believes that his ballot is important erstwhile it comes to safeguarding the cardinal rights granted by Baba Saheb Ambedkar.