Polling was peaceful in the Malnad districts of Shivamogga, Hassan, and Chikkamagaluru. The voters enthusiastically participated in the election process, dubbed the “festival of democracy.”
There were long queues of voters in parts of Hassan, Shivamogga, Shikaripur, Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere constituencies in the early hours of the day. First-time voters cast their votes accompanied by their parents and other elders in the family. Rohith, a resident of Maheshwari Nagar in Sakleshpur, rushed to the polling booth soon after he married Nandini at Dharmasthala, to cast his vote. Similarly, in Sagar, Vinod Kumar, a bridegroom, exercise his right to vote, before reaching the marriage hall, where he married Pallavi from Ripponpet.
