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Maharashtra Assembly Polls: Elderly voters left to fend for themselves
Updated On: 22 October, 2019 08:20 AM IST | | Arita Sarkar
Linganna Mallari, 80, who inched towards the gate after casting his vote, was not aware that the Election Commission mandates wheelchairs for elderly

Linganna Mallari, 80 and Muktabai Sakpal, 70
Most polling stations in various parts of the North Central constituency not only bore a deserted look throughout the day, they even lack coordination and assistance to the elderly.
Several voters above 70s had to struggle to get to their polling booths as the EC website crashed. At St Anthony School, which provided seating areas and pall bearers for the elderly in the Lok Sabha elections, wheelchairs were missing during Monday's assembly polls, forcing elderly voters to search for a place to rest.
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