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Coimbatore
More than 1 crore pledge to vote fairly in Tamil Nadu
May 10, 2016
In a first of its kind initiative in India, more than one crore people pledged to elect without selling their votes in the upcoming assembly elections all over the State.
The Election Commission had earlier planned to conduct a oath taking event in all the Districts, with the help of the respective District Administrations to ensure 100 per cent fair polling in the State.
According to a release, around 1,64,32,213 people including NGO’s, students, government staff, teachers and other volunteers participated in the pledging ceremony.
Chennai recorded the most with around 1740120 people participating in 4396 venues.
Coimbatore recorded 1315170 people in 6230 venues.
