Elections - Andhra pradesh

Hmm,

I would like to record how my first experience of Voting in elections ended. The regular bangalore kacheguda train got delayed by another 1 hour close to, and this being Summer, Sunrise already happened and it was already hot. From station i went straight to polling booth, but the school was transferred from the previous known place to a new place. I was surprised to see that the School was already closed.

I was searching for my name in polling booth 148 list while i was enlisted in 141. After a few frantic calls to home, my mom told me the polling booth and i figured the new place where the school was transferred. Went to the polling booth with the reciept, which identified i was enlisted in the list and the serial number where i belonged. Polling agents inside were really funny.

one of the polling agent was making fun in the polling booth since a friend of his was before me in the line in the polling booth. It was really frustrating to see him doing that in the polling booth as already the presiding election officer was getting confused very easily. I received one 2 slips one for the MLA elections(pink) and another for MP (white). The voting process was fairly simple.

The process was, initally a recording officer presses a button with a machine he holds which is connected to the EVM. The EVM is then activated to accept the vote, and the voter is then expected to press the button corresponding to the symbol of the Party to which he wants to cast the vote. Once the voter presses the voting button on the EVM, there is a beep which would mean the vote is registered.

It was a really simple process. But i was disappointed on the whole on the poor voter turnout.

PS:
Well anyways the list did not contain my mom's and grand ma in it and it was really unfortunate. I took my grandfather to the polling booth, though it was unfortunate he was voting for INC, but i could not deny him his right to vote.

I voted for Dattatreya in center and state i voted for PRP. I really wanted to vote for lok satta but ended up voting for PRP in the state. Anyways voting is already done.

Tirupati -self drive

After a really hectic week, i finally managed to finish my work and had the slack to visit the temple town Tirupati to meet my family who came there to celebrate the "Annaprasana" of my uncle's son. This kid is a really cutie and i like him a lot. The pic here has him in one of his best smiling poses when i was holding.

Well i would write one more blog about the darshan that i had and all that stuff later. But what i really wanted to record was when i was returning from Tirupati, the car that i drove in was really muddy and it did not have any good cloth to clean the windshield. I stopped at a petrol station and asked a person working there if there was something to clean the car windshield. He suggested he had a cloth and i was like, can you please clean this up for me?

I do not know what that guy thought but he went running into the petrol station got a cloth and a small bucket of water and started cleaning it up. I was chatting with this guy about local politics and stuff while he was cleaning it up. My fellow passenger was busy hearing radio sitting in the car. So when it was almost done the guy was asking me to check if the windshield was really clean looking from inside. While i verified it was clean i was asking him for some papers so that i can use them to clean the windshield when needed during the journey. He again went running in and brought some papers.

Now then it was done and i was about to leave and i planned to pay him up. i took 2 ten rupee notes and was about to give him when he said
"If i knew you were going to pay me up i would never have agreed to clean the window in the first place".

Well i have absolutely no words for his generosity. Wel he was realy helpful and taught me a very good lesson. I do not remember his name but i definitely remember his actions and next time when i visit Tirupati again i will definitely meet him up again.