Shillong: Music is synonymous with Meghalaya and continues to be effectively deployed by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Meghalaya to promote awareness and education regarding election amongst its 21, 75 000 strong electorate spread across 3482 polling stations in all its 12 districts, election official said on Sunday.
With just eight days to go for poll day on February 27, the office of the CEO is actively leveraging music to urge voters to come to their nearest polling stations on voting day and to choose, cast and celebrate their franchise and to ‘love your state, love your voice and love your vote’, because your right is your might and your voice is your choice,” the official said.
The ‘Light After Dark’, which is Meghalaya’s first all visually impaired music band and the State’s ‘disability icon’, champions the cause of electoral participation amongst persons with disabilities (PWDs) to ensure that no voter is left behind,” he said.
State ‘Election Icons’ – leading band Summersalt and assorted leading artists from both Khasi Jaintia and Garo Hills regions are musically enthusing and urging all voters to
“Vote for Sure” on February 27 through the foot tapping music video anchored by the office of the CEO, Meghalaya.
“All efforts are being made to ensure that home voting by 80 plus senior citizens and PWDs is facilitated by polling teams who are trekking across arduous terrain to arrange for smooth voting by the above categories transcending queues,” the election department said.
“Through ‘Mission 300’ campaign, five polling stations across 60 assembly constituencies have been identified in a bid to improve voting turnout this time so that it touches 90 percent over and above the 86.9 percent voting turnout recorded in the 2018 Assembly Elections, which, compared to other states in the country is fairly robust,” the election official said.
Earlier on Valentine’s Day, the election department had organized for musical events in bid to motivate millennial voters to exercise their franchise during the coming assembly elections.
