Despite having home voting facility, many elderly and disabled voters braced the heat and voted at polling stations on Tuesday in the third and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh.
Transportation called ‘Matdata Rath’ had been arranged to ferry the elderly and disabled people to polling stations. Voter buddies were deployed at polling centers to assist them.
Utilizing the arrangements, 96-year-old Ayisha B, 95-year-old Ramji Lal Agrawal and another 108-year-old woman graced the polling stations in Raipur.
In Jashpur, members of the special backward tribe Pahadi Korwa – 100-year-old Tejan Ram Pahadiya and 90-year-old Maryam – voted.
There were a total of 61,715 voters over the age of 85 and 2,174 over the age of 100 in the third phase. About 2,725 of them including 907 disabled voted through postal ballots.
