Usually the number of voters increases in every election in most polling stations, but a polling station at Chettyalathur in Wayanad is witnessing the opposite, thanks to the escalating human-wildlife conflict.
There were 544 voters in the settlement in 2018 but now the tally has declined to 139. Only 87 of the 139 voters cast their vote on Thursday.
Decades ago the voting percentage in the hamlet was more than 90% but it has declined to 62.5% now, says K. Ramesh, 44, a farmer at Chettyalathur.
