‘What vote? We are bothered more about our daily bread’: Tiruchy destitutes
Many of these undocumented voters or homeless citizens bother least about the election fever and claim that they are more worried about earning their daily bread.
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Express News Service
TIRUCHY: A single vote can, sometimes, change the political equations in an election and therefore, the district administration is taking innovative steps to spread the importance of suffrage.
However, printing messages on milk packets or taking out awareness rallies to draw maximum number of voters to the polling stations on April 6 make the least impact on a few thousands of people these are the homeless people who do not have any voter identity card or other documents.
Express News Service
TIRUCHY: Even as the peaking fuel costs are testing the tempers of the public, especially those in the transportation industry, there is a tribe of transporters that never feels the pinch.
Cycle rickshaw riders at Gandhi Market in Tiruchy are neither worried about the fuel prices nor do they care about the buzzing elections.
Many of the riders here are in their 60s and do not possess voter ID cards. All they look for is to find rides and make a few bucks.
“Since our rickshaws are old-fashioned, they don’t attract many customers. Mostly, we are dependent on a few vendors who want to transport their goods from one end of the market to the other.” says Joseph, a rider in his 50s.