What's polling day without a bit of drama? Of stars slinking by polling booths, of dead men voting... We went round the city to catch all the action
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DUH MOMENT: Former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy walked in to cast his vote yesterday and would you believe it? he didn't know which hand to stretch out for the voting mark. The poll official, probably overwhelmed by the sight of the grandson of the soil, almost inked him on the right hand. But he soon realised the goof-up, and inked Kumaraswamy's left index fingeru00a0 PIC/TV GRAB |
What's polling day without a bit of drama? Of stars slinking by polling booths, of dead men voting... We went round the city to catch all the actionHegde? Mmmmm...Lokayukta chief justice Santhosh N Hegde went unrecognised when he queued up to vote at Virendra Patil PU College in Sadashivnagar. Without his customary blazer and tie, he looked pretty casual dressed in blue trousers and a white shirt. Voters were taken by surprise when cameramen went click, click, clicku00a0... THEY were not the ones to miss a celebrity in their midst.
Nano day goneNano enthusiasts who wanted to use the holiday productively and rushed to Nano outlets with booking forms found the shutters down.
What's worse, a leave on Thursday doesn't mean an extra day for booking.
"We aren't working as we are on leave for the polls," said Suresh Kamath, manager, Prerana Motors. "And we are not extending bookings by a day either. It will still end on April 25."
104-year-old celebrityPandu Ranga Naidu's son and grandson carried him to the polling booth in Kumaraswamy Layout. He's a special voter he's 104 years old and probably the oldest Bangalorean to exercise his franchise.
Naidu, a resident of Papayya Garden in Padmanabhnagar, has been voting since general elections were conducted for the first time in India in 1951. Naidu was 46 then.
Dead voters in. Live ones outBangalore (South) voters were in fix as polling began. Many of the names on the voters' lists in booth numbers 160 and 161 were those of dead people. And those who had come to vote all alive and kicking couldn't find their names.
