ACCOMPANIED by his friends dressed in traditional attires, a groom decked up in sherwani and colourful headgear was among the first to cast his vote at a polling booth in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur as the first phase of the Lok Sabha election began Friday.Kapil Gupta got married on Thursday and exercised his franchise at a polling booth set up on the premises of the Jammu and Kashmir Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes & Backward Classes Development Corporation Limited in Udhampur town soon after returning home on Friday morning.

 

“Voting is our right and must be done on priority,” he said, requesting voters to vote in large numbers. “It is my first vote on attaining the age of 18 and I was waiting for this moment,” Vanshika Sharma, a resident of Bhaderwah in Doda district, said. Meenakshi was the first to vote at the ‘pink’ polling station in the town and expressed satisfaction over the arrangements. Mool Raj, another voter, was happy to be presented a bouquet for being the first to vote at a polling station in Bhaderwah.