Poll Vault: Priyanka arrives late, gives MVA jitters

Pune voters volition person a 20 per cent discount connected their eating bills astatine implicit 50 participating restaurants if they formed their votes successful the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. The connection follows the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) Pune chapter’s announcement of a peculiar “Democracy Discount” inaugural aimed astatine encouraging elector participation.

The ‘Democracy Discount’ is designed to boost elector turnout, peculiarly among young municipality voters. The connection volition beryllium valid for 2 consecutive days, November 20 and 21, astatine astir 60 selected restaurants crossed Pune.

The NRAI stated that the inaugural comes astatine a important clip erstwhile Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has voiced concerns astir municipality elector apathy and emphasised the request for maximum elector turnout successful the upcoming elections.

Sahil Jahagirdar, NRAI Pune’s in-charge, expressed anticipation that the inaugural would animate voters to actively enactment successful the antiauthoritarian process. “Celebrating the world’s largest antiauthoritarian festival, I widen heartfelt acknowledgment to each the restaurants supporting this origin with their unsocial offer,” helium said.

Participating restaurants volition supply the discount connected the full measure to dine-in customers who contiguous their elector IDs, impervious of Pune residency, and inked fingers arsenic grounds of voting.

I conscionable called to say…elect me

Who isn’t harassed by unsolicited calls asking you to instrumentality their recognition card, instrumentality retired a indebtedness or, arsenic is much communal now, click connected a nexus due to the fact that your parcel has been seized by Customs oregon your telephone volition beryllium blocked successful an hr hoping to ensnare you successful a cyber scam? Of precocious adding to the unsolicited rings person been calls wherever a recorded, but acquainted voice, asks you successful the politest of code to marque definite you formed your ballot successful their favour. In immoderate cases the connection is adjacent preceded by your name, making it adjacent much personal. While not a scam of course, it does marque you wonderment astatine the fig of calls you person per time which are genuinely from radical you cognize and the ones who conscionable request your clip oregon wealth oregon vote.