Gujarat: Registration drive adds record numbers

The

Gujarat

election commission received an overwhelming response on the first day of a fresh enrolment drive with online registration of 7,500 first-time voters in a single day, which may be a world record of sorts. The campaign was held at Gujarat University campus.


"More than 7,500 first-time voters were registered online. It’s a unique world record where such a large number of first-time voters have gathered in a single day and at a single location," said

Ahmedabad district

collector Vikrant Pandey.

A team from World Book of Records was here to document the event, he added.

Himanshu Pandya, vice-chancellor of Gujarat University said that text messages were sent to mobile phones of as many as 60,000 students studying at the university.

The enrolment drive for first-time voters will continue till March 22 said election officials.

Apart from the online process, a person can also walk into the office of local mamlatdars and fill up the registration form.

Chief electoral officer of Gujarat, S Murali Krishna, said, "The drive will continue and the election commission offices in the respective constituencies will ensure that the electoral photo identity card (Epic) is given to the voter on time."

Voting for

Lok Sabha elections

in Gujarat will be held on April 23. Officials said the new names registered will be published in a supplementary voters list which will be printed before the final day of voting. In 2014 over 11.68 lakh voters were registered.