The Election commission of India will intensify its campaign for educating and spreading awareness among voters for increased participation in the coming elections. The ECI will run a campaign under `Continued electoral and democracy education Yojna’. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of UP, l Venketwasher lu said in lucknow on Monday that there was pressing need for enhancing awareness among voters and for which they need to be apprised of the election process so that they could exercise their franchise in a diligent manner.
Presiding over a meeting of voter’s literacy committee, the CEO said that voters should be felicitated and encouraged to go to polling stations so that they could have the pleasant experience of casting their vote. He said the ECI has directed for running a campaign to spread awareness and inspire voters so that the polling percentage could substantially increase in the coming elections.
lu said that the voters need to be educated that they should not be influenced or swayed by any kind of inducement offered by candidates and should vote only for the right and deserving candidate. He said that electors also needed to be sensitized against those candidates and political parties who try to influence voters by raising issues related to religion or caste. The CEO said there was specific need to make voters aware so that they were not swayed by religious sentiments and religious leaders during elections. The Voters’ literacy Committee includes Higher Education, Secondary Education, Basic Education and Adult Education departments, National Cadet Corps (NCC), Scout and Guide, State Council of Education Research and Training, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyaan, NSS etc. Officers of all departments said that they would work on the directions of the ECI for spreading awareness among voters.