Tamil Nadu election: Sri Lankan refugee camp resident casts his first vote as Indian citizen

A long-held imagination came existent for R. Gokuleswaran, 39, a nonmigratory of the Sri Lankan Tamils Rehabilitation Camp astatine Kottapattu, Tiruchi, erstwhile helium formed his ballot for the archetypal clip arsenic an Indian national successful the State Legislative Assembly elections connected Thursday (April 23, 2026).

“Most first-time voters are successful their aboriginal 20s. I americium astir 40. But I consciousness arsenic if my beingness arsenic an Indian has conscionable begun, and my the aboriginal of my children arsenic Indian citizens is assured,” Mr. Gokuleswaran, a begetter of 2 who works astatine a store successful Kattur, told The Hindu connected Thursday.