As part of the effort to increase awareness among voters on the importance of exercising their franchise, Nagapattinam Collector and District Election Officer S Palanisami went on a paragliding sortie on Thursday.
As he went on the paragliding sortie in the new beach area in Nagapattinam, billboards there urged people to vote. The electorate will vote in a single-phase election in the state to be held on 16 May. Opinion polls predict the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK will come back with an absolute majority.
“The event was held as part of efforts to create more awareness on the need to vote,” he told reporters.
Street-corner meetings, skits, human-chains, rallies were among other initiatives undertaken to create voter awareness, he said.
Such initiatives were being carried out in 138 polling stations that recorded very low percentage of polling in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he said.
Such paragliding events will be held in Vedaranyam beach, and in ‘Rajan Thottam’ in Mayiladuthurai. General public, and other sections of society like college students should participate in it.S Palanisami, Nagapattinam Collector and District Election Officer
Besides the district collector, students from schools and colleges, including those pursuing nursing, also went paragliding and urged voters to ensure 100 percent polling.
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