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Assam: Volunteers of Surjuday NGO spreading awareness on voting rights in democracy

<span style="color: #222222;">The poll bound state has been witnessing heated political rallies every day and senior leaders of political parties both national and regional are addressing meetings to woo the voters.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''While the parties are canvassing voters with folded hands for casting their votes to the party candidates, volunteers of a NGO in Tinsukia district are busy with door to door campaigns in remote parts of villages spreading the message that casting of votes is necessary for democratic country like India.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''AIR correspondent reports, amidst the echos of political leaders shouting over the loudspeakers in the election campaigning at the nook and corner of Assam, the volunteers of NGO Surjudaya based at Tinsukia district are busy from last seven days on door to door awareness campaign on voting rights in democracy.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''The NGO has been conducting the awareness campaign in two Assembly Constituencies of Tinsukia bordering neighboring State Arunachal Pradesh.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''Director of the Surjuday NGO Shri Akhil Chandra Barua said to AIR News that awareness campaign is conducted in around 25 different villages where the vote percentage was low in the last year assembly election.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''The initiative taken up by this  NGO has shown that in a democratic country, the rights for casting a vote to choose our representative should be exercised without fail.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''Apart from the government agencies, involvement of NGO  in such awareness campaigns is indeed a good sign for a democratic country like India.</span>

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