Travel fares skyrocket as voters head home to T.N. on poll day

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As the State goes to polls, immense crowds were seen astatine the Egmore railway presumption connected Wednesday, arsenic radical headed to their hometowns to workout their voting franchise. | Photo Credit: M. SRINATH

Many NRIs with votes successful Tamil Nadu flew down to formed their ballot successful the April 23 polling for the Assembly election.

While galore Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) posted videos saying they took flights from the United Kingdom, Scotland, and different acold distant countries to workout their franchise, the outgo of home flights from large cities crossed the state to destinations successful Tamil Nadu connected Wednesday was astir triple the mean fare.

Published - April 22, 2026 09:28 p.m. IST

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