Determined to overcome the lacklustre voter turnout in the general elections, residents of Prestige Shantiniketan, an apartment complex in Bengaluru, decided to ensure the voter turnout more than double this time around.
They have hired four mini buses to ferry residents to and fro to the polling booth in Hoody to ensure that everyone who enrolled casts their vote.
After conducting a voter enrolment drive at their apartment complex in Mahadevapura, which consists of around 3,000 apartments and 10,000 residents - around 5,000 of them adults, they managed to enrol 2,000 of them this time. Previously, only 200 of the 1,200 eligible voters enrolled voted, said Srikakani, a resident.
Polling officials also said this was the first time that residents from Prestige Shantiniketan have participated in such large numbers.
So far, over 700 of them have already cast their vote. Volunteers are marking their attendance on their lists, where names have been listed against flat numbers. “We don't know how many people have come on their own,” said Seema Bhargav, another volunteer.
