Lok Sabha Elections-2024
Home voting begins in Budgam assembly
segments of Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency
Elderly, PwD electors hail Election
Commission of India for providing them ballot facility at their doorsteps
BUDGAM, MAY
07: With 2- Srinagar Parliamentary
Constituency set to go for polls on May- 13 during the fourth phase of Lok
Sabha Elections-2024, the Home Voting process began today in 3 assembly
segments of Budgam district.
These assembly
segments include 29- Khansahab, 30- Charar-i-Sharief and 31-Chadoora.
It is worth
mentioning that the ECI has for the first time initiated the facility of home
voting, where poll parties along with voting facilities were dispatched to the
houses of eligible voters to facilitate them for home voting facility to
collect their votes at their respective places.
The facility of
home voting has been availed by elderly citizens above 85 years of age and
specially-abled persons (PwDs), with 40 percent disability criteria.
The exercise
involved a dedicated team of polling officials, including presiding Officer,
security personnel and other poll parties who collected votes of eligible
voters under the prescribed guidelines of Election Commission of India.
The home voters
hailed the Election Commission for reaching them to their doorsteps and
providing them such facilities at their home.
Rahti Bano- 99
years of age of Khansahib Budgam is one of the senior citizens who availed the
home voting facility and casted her vote at her home.
She expressed her
joy that she could cast her vote from her home, which otherwise she said would
have been difficult for her to reach polling station due to her health
conditions and exercise her right to franchise.
Similarly, senior
citizen Habibbulah Dar thanked the Election Commission of India for the home
voting facility.
Dar, who casted his
vote today for the Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency, appealed to all voters
in Kashmir to cast their vote on the designated poll day.