Secrecy ensured for conjoined twins Sohan & Mohan

GS Paul

Amritsar, February 20

Amritsar’s conjoined twins Sohan Singh and Mohan Singh, popularly known as Sohna and Mohna, cast their votes separately early as voting opened on Sunday morning. Special arrangements were made for them as one was made to wear dark glasses when the other was casting his vote to maintain secrecy.

The twins are the first-time voters, having turned 18 last year. “Everyone should cast his/her votes to help make a ‘Nava (new) Punjab’. When we can do it, why not others,” the visibly excited twins said at a polling station in Manawala. Amritsar Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khera said the two were Amritsar administration’s ambassadors for its special ‘Sanman’ campaign to urge people, especially those with disabilities, first-time voters and those over 80, to come out for vote.

Born on June 14, 2003 at a New Delhi hospital, Sohna and Mohna share a torso, a pair of legs, a liver, and a gallbladder but have separate arms, kidneys and spinal cords. Having been given up by their family and shunned by society, they were raised at an Amritsar orphanage. They now live at Amritsar’s Pingalwara, a charitable home of the destitute.

Currently, they have been employed by Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd after completing their diploma at Industrial Training Institute. They draw one salary.