More than 1.13 lakh passengers avail of election-day discount on Metro fare

Maha Mumbai Metro Operation Corporation Limited MMMOCL on Monday said more than 113 lakh people availed of the special 10 percent discount on ticket fare it had announced for the election dayPolling for the fifth and final phase of India general elections 2024 in Maharashtra took place on MondayA spokesperson of MMMOCL said a total of 113414 passengers travelled on Metro line 2A and Metro line 7 till 5 pmSix Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai went to polls on MondayMMMOCL operates Metro Lines 2A between Andheri West and Dahisar East and 7 between Dahisar East to Andheri EastThe discount was aimed at boosting voter turnout it saidMeanwhile Mumbai recorded a turnout of 5227 percent lower than that in 2019 in the India general elections 2024 on Monday amid sultry weather and complaints of delays in the polling processThe constituency of Mumbai South home to industrialists as well as highranking government officials fared the worst with 477 percent votingIn 2019 the polling percentage across the six Lok Sabha constituencies in the city was 5538 per centMumbai North constituency witnessed 5521 percent polling on Monday Mumbai North Central 5142 percent Mumbai North East 5375 percent Mumbai North West 5367 percent Mumbai South 4770 percent and Mumbai South Central 5188 percent as per the Election Commissions dataWhile at some places people who had turned up at polling booths early in the morning left without casting their vote after waiting in the line for a long time Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray alleged that the process was slowed down deliberatelyVoters at many polling booths complained that they had to wait for more than an hour in the line to cast the voteHigh levels of humidity and a maximum temperature of 35 degrees Celsius added to the voters discomfortUnion minister Piyush Goyal is pitted against Bhushan Patil of Congress in Mumbai North Sanjay Dina Patil of Shiv sena UBT is in contest against Mihir Kotecha of the BJP in Mumbai North East and Advocate Ujjwal Nikam of the BJP is pitted against Varsha Gaikwad of Congress in Mumbai North centralAmol Kirtikar of the Shiv Sena UBT is fighting against Ravindra Waikar of the Shiv Sena in Mumbai North West Anil Desai of Shiv sena UBT is facing off against Rahul Shewale of the Shiv Sena in Mumbai South Central and Arvind Sawant of Sena UBT is pitted against Yamini Jadhav of the Shiv Sena in Mumbai SouthWith inputs from Agencies