Shillong, Feb 19: The Chief Electoral officer (CEO), Meghalaya, FR Kharkongor said Music is synonymous with Meghalaya and continues to be effectively deployed by the office of the CEO Meghalaya to promote voter education & voter awareness amongst its 21,75,000 strong electorate spread across 3482 polling stations located in all of its 12 districts.
The office of the CEO is actively leveraging music to urge voters to come to their nearest polling stations on February 27 and to choose, cast & 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”.
Light After Dark, which is the State’s first all visually impaired music band & the State’s Disability Icon ,champions the cause of electoral participation amongst PWDs to ensure that “no voter is left behind”.
State Election Icons – leading band Summersalt and assorted leading artists from both Khasi Jaintia & 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+ 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.
Through “ Mission 300” campaign, 5 polling stations across 60 ACs have been identified in a bid to improve voting turnout this time, so that it touches 90% over and above the 86.9% voting turnout recorded in the 2018 Assembly Elections, which compared to other states in the country is fairly robust.
