GUWAHATI: High cost of commuting to the polling stations and lack of facilities for the elderly and specially-abled kept many voters away from casting their votes in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) election on Friday.
Polling began at 7.30 am but the turnout was very disappointing. The familiar long queues and happy faces of voters flaunting their inked fingers were missing at some of the booths that TOI visited. “The elderly may not have come to vote because of lack of wheelchairs and attendants at the booths to help them,” said a block level officer at a polling booth.
