Lok Sabha elections: Army troops deployed in Siachen, LoC cast their votes

Indian Army troops deployed across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and Siachen fulfiled their duty of being responsible citizens by voting in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.

In a first, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had provided the facility to serving troops, deployed in remote terrians, to download their ballot papers online, vote and forward those to their respective Electoral Returning Officers via post.

Undeterred by cross-border ceasefire violations and severe weather conditions, soldiers of the Indian Army voted enthusiastically on Thursday. Voting was held across 91 Lok Sabha seats across 20 states and Union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019.

While voting was peaceful in most of the states that saw polling today, two deaths were reported from Andhra Pradesh while a few IED blasts were reported from constituencies in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.