Lok Sabha Elections-2024
110 Year Old Women casts Vote through
Home Voting facility at Shopian
SHOPIAN, MAY 07: On
the first day of Postal and Home Voting in the district for the 02-Srinagar
Parliamentary Constituency, today a 110 year old female voter of Shopian
Assembly Segment exercised her franchise.
The voter, residing
at Therin Kandi in Tehsil Keller casted her vote through Home Voting Facility,
facilitated by the District Administration, Shopian subsequent to guidelines of
Election Commission of India in the direction of ensuring Inclusive
Participation of voting process.
The Home Voting
Facility commenced throughout the Shopian assembly segment of the Srinagar
Parliamentary Constituency wherein senior citizens and specially-abled voters,
numbering 185 shall exercise their franchise, in a process monitored by
election machinery of ECI and district administration with proper magisterial,
observer and security arrangements.
Similarly, a Postal
Voting Centre was also set up at Shopian to facilitate Postal Voting of
essential service staff, who were not earlier able to cast their vote due to
their election day duties. A total of 586 voters shall cast their vote during
the three day period.
DEO Shopian, Faz
Lul Haseeb also visited areas to oversee the process.