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Silent Walk for a cause

VISAKHAPATNAM: Thousands are expected to participate in a ‘silent walk’ on Beach road on Sunday evening to create awareness about the duty of every citizen who is eligible to vote.

Announcing this at a media conference here on Thursday, Director of Vijay Nirman Co. Pvt. Ltd., V. Ajay Kumar, clarified that the campaign had nothing to do with any political party and only aimed at creating awareness on the need to exercise franchise, motivate them to take active part in the voting process for the betterment of life around us.

The silent walk would begin at VUDA Park at 5 p.m. and end at Ramakrishna Beach. The police were informed about the programme and hundreds of volunteers including students, youth, and senior citizens would be present to organise the event smoothly, he said.National Convener Round Table India, Rishikesh Pagnis, said ‘Let’s Vote’ was launched in Hyderabad by Managing Director of Nvidia India J.A. Chowdary and like-minded friends.

The Round Table wanted to make it a national movement through Visakhapatnam for spreading the awareness on the vital national duty of voting in the wake of increase in eligible voters by over four crores.

The walk would take place simultaneously in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.

Xinthe Technologies’ Director Sastry Pullela and part of the organisers T.A. Venkateswaran said that in the last general elections, the voter turnout was an abysmal 49.32 per cent.

What was of more serious concern was that the educated classes continued to remain apathetic and most of them do not vote.

The indifference betrayed lack of citizenship, which was reason for all the ills plaguing the society, they said.

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