Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Did you know there are Indians with 2 votes?

Hello and welcome to Dance of Democracy Season 24. Every voter has one vote right? But in these cluster of villages on the Orissa and border, voters say they have two votes. We travel there to find out. It’s not uncommon here to see boards in both Telugu and Oriya on the same St. here. That’s perhaps the least surprising thing here in Kotiya on the Andhra Pradesh Orissa border. Voters in this predominantly tribal belt that includes 28 villages say they cast their vote in two states. 2500 voters on the Andhra Pradesh Odisha border are enjoying the best of both worlds. They have two voter ID cards, 2 ration cards and sometimes even 2 pension cards. The decades long dispute between the two states means the voters are enjoying Odisha’s infrastructure push and Andhra Pradeshas welfare schemes. I The dispute over jurisdiction of this cluster of villages reached the Supreme Court in 1968. It was in 2006 that the apex court said that only Parliament could resolve this impasse, putting in place a permanent injunction on the disputed area. The Andhra CEO told TOI enrolment in two constituencies is illegal. He has promised to look into this unusual arrangement and feels that Aadhar seeding could solve the problem. This time around, however, the vote is Dileba is which constituency to vote M as Arako in Andhra Pradesh and Co Opera in Odisha go to the polls on the same day May 13 from 1 voter with two votes to one constituency that votes over 2 phases. We are talking about outer Manipur, the only constituency in India that votes in two phases. This decision was taken by the Election Commission due to the months long ethnic conflict in Manipur. Another decision taken by the EC has made C60 commandos in Gadchiroli very happy. Abhishek Chaudhary explains they are the reasons why voters in Naxal areas cast their votes without fear. Even though there are boycott calls given by the Maoist. They are getting for the first time a chance to cast their postal ballot at the Special Facilitation Center set up for them. These are the elite C60 commando unit to make sure that voters go out and cast their ballot without any fear. Qi Somitra Bose got a chance to catch up with these commandos as they got their fingers zinc before leaving for election duty. Let’s now talk about a superstar who made a super debut in Indian politics but that didn’t last as long as his film career. There is a lot of star power in this one picture. Already a Bollywood heart shock. When this photo was taken in 1992, Rajesh Khanna was taking his baby steps as a member of Parliament. He had just won the by elections and his family members had joined him. To celebrate, Khanna contested his first Lok Sabha elections in 1991 and had lost to BJP veteran LK Advani. But his luck changed when LK Advani gave up his New Delhi seat to retain the one in Gandhinagar. The bypolls that followed pit two Hindi film stars against each other and Khanna defeated Shatrugun Sinha. However, the Bollywood superstar’s journey as a politician did not have a long run. What happens when you take the symbol of a candidate a bit too seriously when it comes to voting? That’s a hilarious story, Pranab Mukherjee told Mahua Chatterjee. There was this symbol of the banyan tree, of a huge banyan tree. So there was a man in a village who, from the education that had been given to them about symbols and where to vote, and who to vote for, had figured that he wanted to vote for the person who had the banyan tree as his symbol. So very diligently, he went to the booth, stood in a line, took his ballot paper, came out of the booth and headed straight for the big banyan tree that there was in the village. Climbed up the tree and to ensure that that ballot doesn’t fall off anywhere, put it into a very. He climbed the tree to an extent and then he put it, put the ballot paper very carefully in in a hollow there and came down. Obviously, nothing happened to his vote, but that’s how we started voting. Before we wrap up, it’s time for a quick quiz. Who was the first election commissioner of India? Your options are Sukumar Sen VS Ramadevi Shankar Dayal Sharma, Rajendra Prasad. Write in your answer and don’t forget to like, share, strike. The election story of India is incomplete without the Times of India. Every morning our 51 editions that only provide most extensive coverage of elections. They also discover an India that’s unseen and unknown.