Lucknow, May 20 (Hindustan Reporter) In the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections today, voters are standing in queues from 7 am in the capital Lucknow to exercise their franchise. During this time, District Election Officer Suryapal Gangwar was seen helping a disabled voter at the polling booth in the Municipal Corporation premises.
The District Election Officer asked the disabled voter, who came to the meeting on a wheelchair, about the slip and election identity card. As soon as the information about the presence of both was received, the District Election Officer himself drove the wheelchair of the disabled voter and took him to the room. At the same polling station, Suryapal Gangwar also cast his vote.
Government advocate Dilip Pathak and his wife reached the polling booth in the government school of Daliganj Mohalla to vote together. After casting their vote, the husband and wife said that today they have stopped their household work and have come to vote first. Well, this is not the first time that both of them have come out together to vote. By going out together in the morning to vote, the entire day's time can be utilized in household work.
There were queues of voters since morning at the polling booth located in the faculty campus of Lucknow University on Nadwan Marg. During this, Bharatiya Janata Party councilor Ranjit Singh was seen managing the rickshaw for the voters coming from Mankameshwar temple and making them sit.
After voting, Mahant Devya Giri of Mankameshwar Temple appealed to Shiva devotees to come out of their homes and vote. Mahant Devya Giri said that on the day of voting, leave aside other work and vote first. Do your daily work only after voting. Today is also Monday, may Lord Shiv Shankar bless everyone.
To avoid the sun and heat, some voters queued up at polling stations even before 7 am. Voters reached the polling stations of Reserve Police Line and Nirala Nagar from 6 in the morning. He tasted the tea brought in a thermos and exercised his franchise as soon as the voting began.