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Anushka Sharma received pleasant surprise at polling booth
Updated On: 29 April, 2019 08:28 PM IST | | PTI
The official said Sharma appreciated the gesture and also clicked pictures with the women staff there
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Actor Anushka Sharma, who cast her vote in an all-women "Sakhi" polling booth in Versova, part of the Mumbai North West parliamentary constituency, was pleasantly surprised to get a kokam sharbat and a sanitary napkin packet.
As part of an Election Commission initiative to encourage women voters and honour women power, "Sakhi" polling booths, staffed entirely by women officials, have been set up in which women voters are given a sanitary napkin packet and kokam juice post voting, an official said. These booths have been decorated with balloons and rangoli as well, he added.
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