The Sena struck one in the recent Andheri East Assembly bypoll. Going beyond winners though, a big takeaway here was that citizens above the age of 80, who wanted to vote in the bypoll from their homes, were able to do so. Of 430 senior voters, 392 exercised their franchise from home which, according to officials, was unprecedented.

As per the directives of the Election Commission of India, the Mumbai Suburban District’s administrators implemented the voting at home initiative for octogenarians from a list of voters aged 80 years and above. This list had the information of approximately 7,000 voters. Every person on it was contacted directly and informed about the facility of voting from home.