WARSHI, India: Five people from one family in a remote Himalayan village voted in India’s election in their own polling station on Monday (May 20) after officials travelled for seven hours and borrowed a power connection from the military to enable them to cast their ballots.
Officials collected the voting equipment on Sunday from Leh, capital city of the Himalayan federal territory of Ladakh, and boarded a bus, for the 180km trip to Warshi – where the only voters were Rinchen, 23, her parents, and grandparents.
Located about 20km from Siachen Glacier, dubbed the world’s highest battlefield where Indian and Pakistani troops have faced-off for four decades, Warshi is accessible by road but lacks amenities such as electricity, healthcare and the internet.
Polling officials turned to the military Border Roads Organisation for electricity when the generator they had carried up failed to work.
