Elderly, persons with disabilities make their way to polling stations

When 107-year-old K. Ponnusamy walked into a polling presumption successful Sithanaickenpalayam successful the territory connected Thursday to formed his vote, it acceptable the code for the time that property and disablement won’t basal successful the mode of radical exercising their franchise. Polling stations successful Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts witnessed galore aged and otherwise abled radical casting their votes.

Coimbatore territory has 20,566 voters aged 85 and supra and 15,420 persons with disabilities. Of them, 7,583 elder citizens and 1,692 persons with disabilities had registered for postal ballot (home voting), and 6,863 voters successful the 85+ class and 1,600 persons with disabilities voted this way.