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Poll panel appeals to voters in Delhi, NCR to break trend of urban apathy
The Morning Standard
|May 25, 2024
THE Election Commission has urged the voters in the urban centres including Delhi, Gurugram and Faridabad to break the trend of urban apathy by coming out in large numbers to vote in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on Saturday.
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At the end of voting in the fifth phase of election on May 20, the poll panel had lamented that constituencies in various cities such as Mumbai, Thane, Nashik and Lucknow have continued the trend of "urban apathy" as noticed in the 2019 polls.
This story is from the May 25, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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