Kolkata: Twenty-seven patients positively Covid stepped into different polling booths in the last hour of voting to train their franchise on Sunday.
About 96 people like that, who are in the house quarantine, have expressed their desire to choose.
Most of these people voted in the voting booth in South Kolkata.
The direction of the State Election Commission asked the state administration to ensure the right facilities for positive Covid-19 patients if they wanted to use their franchise.
According to sources, some Covid-19 patients guide the coordinator of their respective wards, express their desire to vote in the polling booth.
A man in late 50s, who was a resident of Ballygunge Place, called a TMC leader and wanted to choose his voice at the voting booth at the Ballygunge train station.
“We offered to send it a car to come to the booth.
But he insisted that he would come alone.
He reached the booth around 4pm and gave his voice in the PPE kit offered by the poll personnel,” said a voting agent on the venue .
A young resident of buyaghata, who was tested positive for Covid 10 days ago, went to a voting booth in his area and asked the voting officer to make arrangements so he could choose.
The young man who wore a PPE kit was taken to a remote place to press the button on the voting machine as a trinamool congressional voting agent in Rongkol Slum, which was located near Golf Green, got a call from a woman who had been tested positively for Covid but made-made his mind to visit Voting Stan near Lord’s More to give His voice.
He was offered a ride to the poll, he received, and reached the booth at around 4:30 p.m.
According to the norm, the Country Election Commission has sent a list of wise patients for poll personnel throughout the city.
While four patients from Borough X – who have topped the Covid-19 case list recently – reached a polling booth, three of each of Boroughs XI and XII were seen giving their voices.
Polling catches in Borough I, III and XVI recorded two patients like that each train their franchise.
(Input from Debashis Konar)
Kolkata: 27 Covid patients appear for the last hour of voting
