Covid-19 norms were rampantly flouted across the constituencies in the city that voted in the last leg on Thursday, in keeping with the trend of the previous phases.
There was no semblance of social distancing in the queues outside some polling stations. At some other booths, voters discarded gloves everywhere instead of in the designated yellow bins. In some stations, both the norms were flouted.
People at the camp offices of political parties near the poll booths sat without wearing masks, undeterred.
The previous phases of elections had held up a similar sorry picture. But Thursday’s violations came in the backdrop of the judiciary’s stinging admonition of the Election Commission.