Jagjivan Mistry aged 104 yrs performed his duty of voting today at Marol Education School,Andheri East. (Pic/Samiullah Khan)
First voter at Kalyan booth; Sharada Sawant, 70.
She reached the polling station before 6 am. “I want to do my duty. The rest will be handled by politicians and the government,” she says (Pic/Aishwarya Iyer)
A police personnel helps a senior citizen on a wheelchair at a poling station at Bandra East during BMC Election 2026 (Pic/SHADAB KHAN)
Eight-five-year-old Arun Narayan Kadam, who served in the 1965 Indo-Pak war, casts his vote at ward no 117 of Datar Colony in Bhandup East (Pic/Ritika Gondhalekar)
Shankar Mohan Lot (71) and his wife Meera (67) cast their votes in Goregaon East. The couple expressed satisfaction over the smooth and hassle-free voting process (Pic/Ranjeet Jadhav)
Kalyan residents Pramod Sambhaji Gawde and his wife Priti said, "We are voting together for a better Kalyan. Hope the promises are fulfilled”
Elderly residents from Pali Hill, Bandra, reach the polling at ward number 100 complained that they were unable to access wheelchairs. Following their complaint, NSS students volunteering at the polling station, helped the elderly residents (Pic/Madhulika Ram)
Veteran BJP leader and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Ram Naik (92), exercised his franchise at Ward No 51 as soon as polling began at 7.30 am. Naik is one of the first voters at the polling booth for the past 70 years
Across polling centres near Savarkar Road, a large number of senior citizens were seen turning up early to exercise their franchise (Pic/Shrikant Khuperkar)
Parvati Krishnan, aged 100, showed up early at the polling booth in Ward 55, Goregaon, amid Pongal celebrations. Her son told mid-day.com that they "stood with the nation" when they came here to vote (Pic/Aditi Alurkar)
An elderly voter comes out of the polling booth in Ramzan Ali School at Malwani, Malad, after exercising his democratic right (Pic/Samiullah)
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