Manu Bhaker shares excitement as she votes for 1st time in Haryana elections
Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker reached a polling station in Haryana’s Jhajjar early on Saturday morning to cast her vote.
Paris Olympic double-medallist appealed to the people, especially the younger ones, to come out and cast their votes. The 22-year-old athlete cast her vote for the first-ever time, her father Ram Kishan Bhaker said.
On casting her first vote, Manu says, "Being the youth of this country, it is our responsibility to cast our vote for the most favourable candidate. Small steps lead to big goals... I voted for the first time...".
She shared her enticement and said how she would accompany her parents to polling stations as a child and aspired to cast her vote, too.
#WATCH | On casting her first vote, Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker says, "Being the youth of this country, it is our responsibility to cast our vote for the most favourable candidate. Small steps lead to big goals... I voted for the first time..." https://t.co/806sYLcpoe pic.twitter.com/vQ5j4m7fFB
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Polling for all the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana began on Saturday morning amid tight security arrangements, officials said.
The fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, besides the JJP's Dushyant Chautala and 1,027 other candidates, will be decided in the polls in which more than two crore people are eligible to vote. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing a hat-trick of Assembly election wins in the state, while the Congress is hoping to return to power after 10 years. The counting of votes will be taken up on October 8. The voting is being held from 7 am 6 pm.
