Mixed turnout of voters
GUWAHATI, April 23: The shops and business establishments remained close today as an automatic response to the Lok Sabha polls followed by the vehicles in the city which had created a large-scale transportation chaos. A section had closed their shops and business establishments to go to cast their votes, while the other section kept those closed seeing no hope of customers’ flow, but interestingly they even did not go for casting their votes.
In the beginning, the flow of voters to the polling centres of Guwahati HPC, that comes within the city area, was low attributed to the weather; but the flow went up as the weather improved.
Contrary to the above, in four polling centres at Ganeshnagar in Basishtha area, an area inhabited by varied communities, enthusiasm on the part of voters was to bee seen from the very morning notwithstanding the adverse weather conditions. Even the polling officials and police expressed their satisfaction over the total turnout.
At a polling centre at Narakasur in Kahilipara, untoward situation was about to be started over voters’ identity card. But, by the due intervention of police, the situation became normal. THE SENTINEL
GUWAHATI, April 23: The shops and business establishments remained close today as an automatic response to the Lok Sabha polls followed by the vehicles in the city which had created a large-scale transportation chaos. A section had closed their shops and business establishments to go to cast their votes, while the other section kept those closed seeing no hope of customers’ flow, but interestingly they even did not go for casting their votes.
In the beginning, the flow of voters to the polling centres of Guwahati HPC, that comes within the city area, was low attributed to the weather; but the flow went up as the weather improved.
Contrary to the above, in four polling centres at Ganeshnagar in Basishtha area, an area inhabited by varied communities, enthusiasm on the part of voters was to bee seen from the very morning notwithstanding the adverse weather conditions. Even the polling officials and police expressed their satisfaction over the total turnout.
At a polling centre at Narakasur in Kahilipara, untoward situation was about to be started over voters’ identity card. But, by the due intervention of police, the situation became normal. THE SENTINEL
Normal life disrupted due to polls
GUWAHATI, April 23: Normal life has been disrupted due to Lok Sabha polls today. The streets wore unprecedented silence attributed to the acute shortage of buses. In view of the Lok Sabha polls, buses had been requisitioned by the authorities at a large scale. There were also shortage of rickshaws and autorickshaws on the streets of the city today. Taking full advantage of the situation, the fare of both rickshaws and autorickshaws had been hiked due to which the common people had to suffer a lot.
According to sources, around 700 city buses ply in the city at a regular basis. But this time, buses have been requisitioned that stands at 90 per cent. Similarly, in the Kamrup district, 205 numbers of buses, 14 numbers of minibuses and 119 numbers of small vehicles had been requisitioned which added woes to the suffering of the common people in the district. THE SENTINEL
According to sources, around 700 city buses ply in the city at a regular basis. But this time, buses have been requisitioned that stands at 90 per cent. Similarly, in the Kamrup district, 205 numbers of buses, 14 numbers of minibuses and 119 numbers of small vehicles had been requisitioned which added woes to the suffering of the common people in the district. THE SENTINEL
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