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First Time Voter feel excited about participating in LS polls
Subodh Bhasin. Dated: 3/21/2019 10:43:09 AM
Subodh Bhasin
Jammu, Mar 20
In a few weeks, India, the largest democracy in the world, will conduct its 17th general elections. The polling will be spread across seven phases across 29 states. The present government at the center in India will complete its five year tenure on June 3, 2019. Hence as per the constitutional procedure, the election commission of India will conduct the general elections for the Lok Sabha in all of the 543 constituencies of the largest democracy in 2019.
In Jammu and Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir voters will vote for Lok Sabha elections in five phases. The polling dates are April 10, 17, 24, 30 and May 7.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chief election commissioner Sunil Arora have been stressing on the importance of the first- time voters participating in the election as being the future of the participatory democracy. In view of the focus being trained on them, it is interesting to know how the youngsters who are going to exercise their franchise for the first time are feeling now, less than a month left for the election.
Young Bites has talked to some of the first-time voters to know their views on the matter. A majority of them sounded excited.
They said they are eagerly looking up to the day when they would throng the booths to cast vote for the first time.
Asked about his expectation from the election Sandeep Sharma, a student and a first-time voter, said, “I do not have much expectation from the parties. However, I like the way Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to connect with the people through an intelligently crafted campaigning machinery. They seem to be far ahead of others in terms of their ability to strike the right chord with the electorate.”
Another first- time voter Karan Behl said, “I am very much excited about voting for the first time. I have no confusion regarding how to cast vote. I know about the process of voting through the electronic voting machine,” he said.
Sneha Madonaval a student, said, “Yes I am very excited about voting for the first time. Once I will cast my first vote it will make me a legally responsible citizen of the nation. I will vote for the party which values development of the youth and generation of employment opportunities for us.”