LUCKNOW: Deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma, several ministers, mayor, senior administrative and police officials and religious leaders cast their votes in Lucknow on Wednesday and then posted their photos, displaying their inked fingers, on social media to encourage voting.
Deputy CM Sharma and his wife cast their votes and then posted their pictures on social media while appealing people to come out and vote. Union minister Kaushal Kishore and state ministers Mahendra Singh, Brijesh Pathak, Mohsin Raza also came with their families to exercise franchise. Mayor Sanyukta Bhatia was also one of the first voters at her booth.