Woman packed polling teams under Hoshangabad parliamentary constituency

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All members of the polling teams in 10 polling booths in each urban body of the Assembly constituencies Narsinghpur, Tendukheda and Gadarwada under the Hoshangabad parliamentary constituency are female.

Such polling booths have been named Saheli Matdaan Kendra by the local administration. The entire work in connection to the voting is being conducted excellently at these booths by these female workers. Women voters besides other voters are getting inspired to cast vote while watching these females holding elections perfectly. Such a polling booth no. 194 has been made in SDM Girls School, Stationganj, Narsinghpur. Maya Patel is a Presiding Officer, whereas Usha Soni, Haribai Thakur and Azra Parveen are election officer no. 1/P-1, P-2 and P-3 of the booth respectively.

Eighty year old osteoporosis Divyang Kamma Nouriya exercised voting right at polling booth made in Government Primary School of Hirapur village of Tendukheda assembly constituency. His son Bhura

Nouriya took him to the polling booth carrying him on his back. They were also assisted by the Boothdoot at the booth. They refused to take assistance of wheelchair/ tricycle made available for the convenience of handicapped voters at the polling booth. Bhura Nouriya says that nothing is bigger than serving parents and voting is also like serving the country.

A young lecturer of a private engineering college of Indore, Santosh Patel covered a distance of 400 km to cast his vote. He casted vote at the polling booth of village Imliya-Kadheli of Tendukheda assembly constituency of the district. He was accorded welcome by the CEO, Jila Panchayat RP Ahirwar and Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Tiwari, who were conducting inspection of the booth.

Adarsh Matdaan Kendra no. 173 at Government Primary School, Talapar of Narsinghpur was decorated like a house decorated for marriage. The booth was made attractive by decorating it with balloons, flowers and leaves. The entrance was also decorated and even arrangements of shed, drinking water besides crèche for children were made at the booth. Proper seating and washrooms arrangement for male and female along with ramp/wheelchair arrangement were also made at the booth. Elderly, handicapped, pregnant and lactating mothers did not have to wait in queue to cast their votes.

Three generation of the same family reached together first to cast their votes at polling booth of Kareli of Narsinghpur assembly constituency.

Eighty three year old Chowdhray Rajendra Singh, his 51 year old son Praveen Kourav and 21 year old granddaughter Tejasvini were part of the family. Chowdhary Rajendra Singh told that voters of every generation must exercise their voting right fearlessly to strengthen the democratic system.

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