At Singapathi polling station, located near Kovai Kutralam, residents of hamlets such as Siruvani Adivaram also come down to vote.
The local people said that even on Sunday night elephants were spotted near the polling booth.
“We are not afraid of elephants. On election day, every one in the hamlets comes to vote,” says Bhuttan, the 75-year-old man lives alone near Singapathi.
A young woman had come with her children and was waiting at the booth for those who had come with her to cast their votes.
Parents
Not only at Singapathi, but in almost all the polling stations, parents had come with their children.
While some of them requested their friends or relatives to take care of the children while they went to vote, many others took the children with them.
M. Priyadharshini of Gandhipuram had to get her two sons ready so that her husband and she could come to the polling station.
She was waiting for her husband to return after casting his vote so that she could take the children with him and go to vote.
At Selvapuram, Meghala and her husband came with their two-year-old son. “There is no one to take care of the child at home. So I got him to the polling station,” she said.
Twenty-five-year-old R. Sweety Mary of Siddhapudur, who is expecting her baby next month, was among the first voters at the polling station.
“The weather was good and I came early to cast my vote and to get back home without delay,” the homemaker said.
(with inputs from
M. Soundariya Preetha and M.K. Ananth)
