The Delhi poll panel chief forgot her voting slip. She had to convince a polling official to let her vote
The Delhi poll panel chief forgot her voting slip. She had to convince a polling official to let her vote
The polling officials at the Old Police Lines polling booth were barely seated in their seats, expecting the first group of voters to come and exercise their franchise, when a lady walked in around 7.30 am.
A woman polling official asked the lady to produce her vote slip to locate her name and details in the voters' list. "Oh! I forgot to bring it," came the reply.
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Surprise: Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Satbir Silas Bedi |
"Hmm... but I remember the serial number. It is 206. Please check it against my name," she told the official.
However, the official was in no mood to relent. "You have to get your vote slip, otherwise I cannotu00e2u0080u00a6," she had to cut short her reply.
"Satbir Silas Bed," she read the name against the number on the voters' list.
"Are you......the Satbir Silas Bedi?"u00a0 she asked and started shouting as soon as she realised that it was the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer she was dealing with.
"Satbir Silas Bedi," she kept repeating in an unbelievable voice. Polling officials from other rooms at the booth came running.
Later, a booth official said, "We were not expecting that the incharge of the entire polling process would come to cast her vote so early in the morning. Nobody noticed her.
A number of poll officials had never seen her." Reacting to the incident, Bedi said, "The lady (polling official) was extremely courteous. She could not recognise me. So, when she read my name in the list, she was surprised."
