Girijans vote with gusto in the Agency

Tribal people turned up in large numbers at polling booths in the hilly tracts of Visakhapatnam on Thursday ignoring the poll boycott call given by Maoists.
The elections were held amid tight security against the backdrop of the killing of Araku MLA Kidari Sarveswara Rao and former MLA Siveri Soma by Maoists at Livitiput on September 23 last year.
At the Government Boys High School here, 3 km from Livitiput, serpentine queues were seen an hour before commencement of polling.
“Voting is our duty. Hence, we cast our vote in every election without fail,” Manim Tanngula, a farmer from Champapati, said.
 

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