Friday, May 15, 2009

Poll officials fail to reach Zanskar on time | World Latest News - fast and latest news

Poll officials fail to reach Zanskar on time | World Latest News - fast and latest news:

New Delhi, May 13, The difficult terrain made it impossible for a 12-member team of elections officials to reach in time the snow-covered Zanskar region in Jammu and Kashmir to conduct voting Wednesday.

But the determined election officials Wednesday early morning began an arduous trek up the Himalayas. As they would reach the two polling stations in the region by Thursday night, the Election Commission said in a statement here that polling will be held there Friday. ...

[this is one of numerous unusual anecdotes from the Indian parliamentary elections]

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