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Centenarian voters to inspire youth in Gurugram to vote in Lok Sabha polls
Aayush Goel
Gurugram, April 9, 2024: Amidst the ongoing voter awareness drives for Lok Sabha General Elections 2024 in Haryana, Gurugram administration has come up with a unique idea.
The administration has urged centenarian voters to inspire young urban voters of the city to vote.It may be noted that Gurugram records one of the poorest voter turnouts each election, especially from young urban voters.
The administration thus, led by District Election Officer (DEO) and DC Nishant Kumar Yadav, is working to ensure that every single eligible voter reaches out for voting.
At the same time, to make the new voters aware of the importance of voting, an appeal is being made through various social organizations, intelligentsia of the district including the citizens who have completed 100 years of age to vote to definitely vote. There are nine voters above 100 years of age in all the four assemblies of the district.
“Its voting veterans like these who can hit the right notes and get people to vote. Though many are not too well, but they have promised to do their bit,” said Deputy Commissioner Nishant Yadav.
102 year old Nambardar Hira Lal, resident of Kasan in Pataudi Assembly has called upon the youth to cast their vote on 25th May. Hira Lal, who voted in the first general elections held in independent India in 1952, says that the experience of the countrymen getting the right to vote after a long period of slavery cannot be expressed in any words. Every citizen of the country got an invisible power in the form of vote to cast their vote.
His 77-year-old son says that his father has voted more than 25 times since the first elections held in the country till the formation of United Punjab and Haryana and Haryana in the year 1966.
He said that during the elections, his father has been motivating the family as well as other people in the neighbourhood to vote and taking them to the polling booth.
Similarly, 101 year old Phula Devi, resident of Baleva village of Pataudi assembly, said that even after the independence of the country, women had to struggle for their various rights. But voting was the only medium in which she was independent.
She said that voters also play an important role in the development path of the country. In such a situation, she is satisfied that as a voter she has also made an important contribution in the golden period of the country after independence.
She said that to keep democracy alive, it is very important for every voter to participate in voting. Phula Devi has called upon all the voters of the district to exercise their vote on May 25 and not to come under the influence of any greed or intoxication etc.
101-year-old Chandrakala, resident of village Kanhai in Gurugram assembly, said that after independence, due to innovation in technologies, the task of casting vote has now become much easier.
In the past, voting through ballot paper had been a long process. Now this important task has become even easier through EVM. She said that democracy can be strengthened only through voting. If we use our votes properly then we can choose the right leader.
Every voter should understand his constitutional rights and go to cast his vote on 25th May so that the true form of democracy can be formed with 100 percent voting.