Bengaluru, Apr 2 : To attract more number of women voters to turn-up at the polling stations, the Bruhath Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has planned to open as many as 250 all-women polling booths in 24 Assembly segments in the metropolis that comes under three Lok Sabha segments.
Speaking after demonstrating the model of the all-women booth in the city, here on Tuesday BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad said, “the motive behind the programme was to attract more number of women voter to the polling stations”.
He said that such polling booths will be established where number of women voters are more in any locality in the city.
Informing that these all-women booths, would be manned by only women staff he said
“It would encourage the women voter to visit the polling booths and cast their votes”.
The BBMP commissioner however said that “The men voters also can exercise their constitutional right if they got registered their names in the voters list, comes under the polling station”.
