The Election Commission and the Collector offices of the city and suburbs, are trying everything in their power to ensure an unprecedented voter turnout on April 29. So keen is their determination that they have been catching school and college students and painstakingly explaining to them the importance of voting, so that they can go back and convince their parents to walk to the poll booth next Monday.

They are determined to increase it from 53 per cent in the 2014 elections, to at least 61 per cent this time. Apart from the regular posters, hoardings and jingles to attract citizens to vote, they have encouraged a 'selfie movement,' wherein they have urged citizens to put up their selfie on social media after voting, especially those voting for the first time.