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Poll-O-Meter: Duty above everything
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Picture credit: commons.wikimedia.org/ Biswarup Ganguly
Picture credit: commons.wikimedia.org/ Biswarup Ganguly

In the 1957 polls, a lady polling officer delivered a child during her journey to the polling station for duty.

In Nimmar district of Madhya Pradesh, a presiding officer was travelling by a truck from Burhanpur to Nepa Nagar when the vehicle ran into a ditch. He was killed on the spot while his companions suffered serious injuries.

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(Published 09 April 2019, 14:57 IST)