Murli Manohar Joshi, Gursharan Kaur exercise their franchise through home voting

Gursharan Kaur casting her vote on Thursday.

 

Ahead of the Assembly poll on February 5, Gursharan Kaur, wife of late former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, cast her vote through the mobile postal ballot facility, an election official said.

Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, 91, who served in the Union Cabinet several times under former Atal Bihari Vajpayee, also cast his vote from his home through the facility, along with his wife Tarla Joshi. They were registered as Absentee Voters in the Senior Citizen category.

In a statement, the Chief Electoral Office of Delhi said, “Upholding the spirit of democracy, senior citizens and esteemed leaders exercised their right to vote through the Home Voting facility in the ongoing elections on Thursday.”