GUWAHATI, April 23 – Two neighbours of Sorumataria area came out of their respective houses with similiar job in hand this morning. While Mohan Das had to wait outside the polling campus for almost half an hour owing to security reasons, his neighbour Bipul Saikia could not have timed his entry to the polling station better as he discovered country’s Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his better half standing next to him in the queue.
“At that very moment, I was nervous as well as excited finding him standing behind me. I knew he was coming to cast his vote here at the Dispur Government Higher Secondary School polling station but never thought will be able to meet him in close quarters,” said an elated Saikia, who is a scientist of Centre for Plasma Physics.
“I conveyed my greetings to him and he reciprocated with a smile”. Dr Singh, dressed in a white kurta and blue turban, reached the polling station along with his wife exactly at 11:35 am in his black BMW car bearing registration number DL 6 CA 8000 and was the 258th voter of the polling station, where in total 1,138 number of voters of the area were expected to cast their votes throughout the day.
Immediately after exercising his voting rights, which took him about three minutes, Dr Singh replying to media queries, said: “It is like homecoming after two years and I am feeling great. So is my wife.”
Asked to comment on the status of the conciliation with Left parties, Dr Singh, said, “ I cannot say anything about the issue at this moment.”
Dr Singh also said that he is not tense about the fate of the Congress this elections.
Meanwhile, Bilibala Devi, principal-in-charge of the school, which has been turned into a polling station, was also deprived entry to the school, where otherwise she is the one who calls the shots.
“I wanted to meet him to apprise him about the problems of the school but perhaps my timing was not right. I was not allowed inside the campus owing to security reasons and I am quite fine with it. But yes, I wanted to meet him,” she said.
The school, which at present imparts education to around 900 students, according to the principal, is facing shortage of teaching members. Besides there are no proper library nor urinal facilities.
The polling station (156) where Dr Singh cast his ballot, witnessed thin attendance from the morning till the arrival of the PM.
Earlier, security arrangements were beefed up in-and-around all the polling stations and no major incident was reported from the city.
Image Source: http://inpui.blogspot.com/2009/04/prime-minister-manmohan-singh-leads-in.html
News Source: Assam Tribune
“At that very moment, I was nervous as well as excited finding him standing behind me. I knew he was coming to cast his vote here at the Dispur Government Higher Secondary School polling station but never thought will be able to meet him in close quarters,” said an elated Saikia, who is a scientist of Centre for Plasma Physics.
“I conveyed my greetings to him and he reciprocated with a smile”. Dr Singh, dressed in a white kurta and blue turban, reached the polling station along with his wife exactly at 11:35 am in his black BMW car bearing registration number DL 6 CA 8000 and was the 258th voter of the polling station, where in total 1,138 number of voters of the area were expected to cast their votes throughout the day.
Immediately after exercising his voting rights, which took him about three minutes, Dr Singh replying to media queries, said: “It is like homecoming after two years and I am feeling great. So is my wife.”
Asked to comment on the status of the conciliation with Left parties, Dr Singh, said, “ I cannot say anything about the issue at this moment.”
Dr Singh also said that he is not tense about the fate of the Congress this elections.
Meanwhile, Bilibala Devi, principal-in-charge of the school, which has been turned into a polling station, was also deprived entry to the school, where otherwise she is the one who calls the shots.
“I wanted to meet him to apprise him about the problems of the school but perhaps my timing was not right. I was not allowed inside the campus owing to security reasons and I am quite fine with it. But yes, I wanted to meet him,” she said.
The school, which at present imparts education to around 900 students, according to the principal, is facing shortage of teaching members. Besides there are no proper library nor urinal facilities.
The polling station (156) where Dr Singh cast his ballot, witnessed thin attendance from the morning till the arrival of the PM.
Earlier, security arrangements were beefed up in-and-around all the polling stations and no major incident was reported from the city.
Image Source: http://inpui.blogspot.com/2009/04/prime-minister-manmohan-singh-leads-in.html
News Source: Assam Tribune
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