Polling parties carry EVMs traversing the farthest and toughest terrain, crossing makeshift bridges to ensure ‘no voter is left behind’, says chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar
The video of a group of election officials climbing steep hills to reach polling stations in Arunachal Pradesh has recently gone viral on the internet.
Travelling through jungles and snow-capped mountains, wading through rivers, carrying electronic voting machines (EVMs) on horse and elephant backs, setting up polling stations in tents, shipping containers and booths in hamlets with a lone voter — the Election Commission (EC) has to literally move mountains to conduct polls at the remotest and inaccessible places.
Travelling through jungles and snow-capped mountains, wading through rivers, carrying electronic voting machines (EVMs) on horse and elephant backs, setting up polling stations in tents, shipping containers and booths in hamlets with a lone voter — the Election Commission (EC) has to literally move mountains to conduct polls at the remotest and inaccessible places.