Dhar (Madhya Pradesh): Specially-abled people played a cricket match in scorching heat to spread awareness among the voters to exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha election on the polling day - May 13 - in Dhar.
The match was played at Kila Ground located at the district headquarters between Badnawar team and Dhar team. Team Badnawar batted first and set a score of 134 runs in 10 overs, while chasing Dhar team could score only 88 runs at the loss of 8 wickets.
Dharmendra batted brilliantly for Badnawar team, scored 85 runs and took four wickets as well. He was declared as the Man of the Match for his brilliant performance.
Dhar collector Priyank Mishra said, "Polling in Dhar parliamentary seat will be held on May 13."
Mishra further said, "We have found that many people do not go to vote on polling day citing small reasons like it is too hot and there will be long queues at polling stations. We received a proposal from an association of specially-abled people in our district that a cricket match should be organised to bring awareness among the voters."
"We liked the proposal and their cricket match was played between Dhar team and Badnawar team. In which team Badnawar won the match. Differently-abled played the match in heat during the day time. With this they wanted to give a message that if they can come forward, play cricket in the heat to spread awareness for voting then the voter should also cooperate and participate in voting," the collector said.
Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh are being conducted in four phases. The first phase of polling was held on April 19. The next three phases will be conducted on April 26, May 7 and May 13. The counting of votes will be held on June 4. (with ANI inputs)
