Several children on Sunday while holding their parents hands, went inside the polling booth across the national Capital to share the joy and satisfy their curiosity about the electoral process. The children were also seen excited to pose in photo kiosks set up at some booths.
A few model polling stations also had a separate zone to entertain children as their parents went inside to cast their vote. Some of the parents were also seen explaining their wards about the electoral process in polling booths.
“You should not only take your child with you when you vote, but you should also talk to him or her about what’s happening and why they should be excited to take part in the election process. Today they are excited, tomorrow we have to make them an engaged citizen. We have to begin before they are old enough to cast their own ballot,” said Anjali Kataria, who voted in polling booth located at August Kranti Marg in South Delhi.
Shubana (10) year-old who had came to Safdarjang Enclave polling booth with her grandparents wanted to see polling stations which she had seen on television.
“My granddaughter wanted to see the polling station as for last month she had been seeing it in news and advertisements on TV. We brought her with us and now she is happy and in excitement she has taken a lot of selfies too,” said Shubana’s grandfather, Amar Nath.
Three-year-old Dhriti was excited to see an EVM machine and took the ink mark on her mother’s fingers as a “design”. “She does not understand what an EVM machine is and she called the voting mark on my finger a design. But I have brought her with me and I will now answer her queries and explain the process,” Dhriti’s father Chaitanya Arya said.