The Election Commission of India (ECI) has set up a unique polling station for just five members of a family in a remote village of Washi in Leh district, Ladakh.
Voting for the lone seat in Ladakh is being held during the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on Monday.
According to a report in The New Indian Express, Ladakh chief electoral officer (CEO) Yetindra M Maralkar said, “A polling station has been set up under a tent in the remote village of Washi in Nubra, around 170 kms from Leh, as part of the Election Commission’s efforts to ensure 100 per cent participation of people in the electoral process.”
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The family consists of six members and five of them – two males and three females – are eligible to vote.
The union territory of Ladakh comprises two districts – Kargil and Buddhist-dominated Leh. The total eligible voters are 1,82,571, including 91,703 males and 90,868 females. The EC has set up 577 polling stations across the UT, including 33 in urban and 544 in rural areas.
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In view of the inaccessibility of some polling stations in Ladakh, the polling material and staff were also airlifted to remote villages.