Pakur, April 5 (Hindustan Reporter) I am dead, how will I vote here? My in-laws' house is at another place, after a few days my husband will take me to my in-laws' house. These things were said by Marankudi Hansda of the tribal group living in Phulpahadi area of Pakur. When Chief Electoral Officer K. During his visit to Santal, Ravi Kumar asked Marankudi Hansda about their voter identity card.
Since Thursday, the Chief Electoral Officer has been roaming in the Santal Pargana region and physically inspecting the arrangements at remote polling stations and the facilities available to the voters. During his visit to Santal, on Friday the Chief Electoral Officer inspected the polling stations located at Sahebganj, Mandro, Pakur and Phulpahari and met the voters of the tribal areas here to know their reaction on the preparations going on in their areas.
During the tour, when the Chief Electoral Officer asked Marankudi Hansda of Phulpahari, who was working in a farm along with her mother-in-law, about the voter ID card, Hansda said that there were still some marriage rituals left, after which she would come here. (In this tribe, in the marriage tradition, the woman comes to her in-laws' house a year before, later after feeding all the family members, the marriage is considered complete).
After this, the Chief Electoral Officer directed the BLOs to connect these voters with the Voter Helpline App. Also said that if the new daughter-in-law has come under the area of BLO, then she must apply for getting her voter identity card made.