5 Of Family Cast Vote In Their Own Polling Booth In Remote Ladakh Village
NDTV
Officials collected the voting equipment on Sunday from Leh, capital city of the Himalayan federal territory of Ladakh, and boarded a bus, for the 180-km (110-mile) trip to Warshi - where the only voters were Rinchen, 23, her parents, and grandparents.
Five people from one family in a remote Himalayan village voted in today's phase in their own polling station after officials travelled for seven hours and borrowed a power connection from the military to enable them to cast their ballots.
Officials collected the voting equipment on Sunday from Leh, capital city of the Himalayan federal territory of Ladakh, and boarded a bus, for the 180-km (110-mile) trip to Warshi - where the only voters were Rinchen, 23, her parents, and grandparents.
Located about 20 km (12 miles) from Siachen Glacier, dubbed the world's highest battlefield where Indian and Pakistani troops have faced-off for four decades, Warshi is accessible by road but lacks amenities such as electricity, healthcare and the internet.
