Restore booth or won’t vote: Villagers

The electorate of K Ramarajapuram village coming under Vadipatti taluk in Madurai district have threatened to boycott the Assembly election on May 16 to protest the shifting of polling booth from their village to a neighbouring hamlet.

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Published:29th Mar, 2016 at 11:35 PM

Madurai

The village with a population of 600 people, including 370 voters, has decided to boycott the poll. A decision to this effect was unanimously taken at a meeting of people of all communities in the village.

The residents claimed that they had been exercising their franchise in a polling booth at K Ramarajapuram union primary school, till 2011. The polling booth was shifted to a government high school at Kachaikatti hamlet that is seven km away from K Ramarajapuram during the last Lok Sabha election.

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Restore booth or won’t vote: Villagers

The electorate of K Ramarajapuram village coming under Vadipatti taluk in Madurai district have threatened to boycott the Assembly election on May 16 to protest the shifting of polling booth from their village to a neighbouring hamlet.

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