In the migration-hit Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region, the administration has set up a special control room to call and convince people who have moved to the metros to eke out a living, to return to their home villages just for polling day on November 17.
A team of officials has started a tour to personally visit migrants in the cities, many of whom left due to unending agrarian distress, asking them to come exercise their franchise; postcards are being sent with the same appeal.
When Pramod Chaurasiya, native of Panagar village, received a call from the district control room, he had had no plans to come to his home town this Diwali; but now, he has changed his mind. “We must vote to bring the right person to power who can work for the poor farmers of Chhatarpur so that people like me don’t have to leave our homes and families in search of employment,” he said.
