Voting for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 has been completed, during which many different colors have been seen. Despite the death of a 39-year-old man in the family yesterday morning in Nagpur, Maharashtra, his wife and mother and relatives of an elderly man who breathed his last a day ago, put aside their grief and exercised their franchise on Friday, which people are surprised to see. Went. Madan Mohan Khemani (74), the second of the five brothers, died in the city on Thursday. “He always talked about the importance of voting,” said his brother Manoj Khemani.
“Out of the eligible voters in our joint family, 27 people exercised their franchise today at the Vardhaman Nagar polling station,” he told PTI. After that we took part in Uthavana (post-death ritual).”
Similarly, Abhinav Karhu (39), resident of Tatya Tope Nagar, died in the morning after a long illness. Before his last rites, his mother Maithili Karhu and wife Shruti exercised their franchise at the Jupiter School polling booth. While leaving the polling booth, his mother said that voting is a national duty. Let us tell you that in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, voting was completed on five seats including Nagpur in Maharashtra on Friday.
Newly married couples voted, elders arrived in wheelchairs
Many newly married couples came to vote in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on Friday, some of whom voted dressed in traditional attire after tying the knot and some voted before marriage. The “farewell” ceremony of a bride in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, which falls in the Udhampur parliamentary constituency, was delayed so that she could go to the polling booth and cast her vote. “My appeal to the people is that they should vote for the development of the country,” Vishal Shanky said outside a booth in Bhaderwah town, waiting for his wife Monica Sharma to return after voting. Dheeraj Soni and Pooja Soni in Sikar, Rajasthan, Asim Mangotra and Vishali in Udhampur and Devesh Thakur and Gangotri Thakur in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh cast their votes immediately after their marriage.
In Jaipur, 95-year-old retired naval officer RN Singh reached the polling booth in a wheelchair to cast his vote. “I have personally come here to ensure my vote,” Singh said. 92 year old retired professor Uday Singh arrived in Aurangabad, Bihar to cast his vote in a wheelchair.
Shompen tribals voted for the first time in Andaman
In a first in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, seven members of the Shompen tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) of the Great Nicobar Islands, exercised their franchise for the lone Lok Sabha seat of the Union Territory. They not only voted but also took selfies at polling booth 411, named ‘Champagne Hut’.
The bride reached the polling booth in her wedding dress.
A bride in her wedding dress reached a polling booth in Sheikhpura, which falls under Jamui Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar, on Friday and exercised her franchise. Sushmita Kumari, resident of Chakdiwan locality of Shekhpura, was among the first people to reach the polling station. She went there immediately after the wedding rituals were completed in the morning. Kumari told reporters, “I told my family that I will first cast my vote and then leave for my in-laws’ house in Deoghar, Jharkhand.” My family and in-laws agreed to this.
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