We need to keep up concerted awareness drives and constant hardselling about the need to vote, as awareness is the first step to changing attitudes towards voting. It is time to set the bar higher as far as voter turnout is concerned. Let us not point fingers at people, at political parties or at the media or at authority figures.

There has been enough awareness created, especially in recent years, about how votes can make a difference and change the destiny of the people. Celebrities have endorsed voting and so have other well-known names and faces.