600 displaced voters carried in AC cars to booths

13.05.10 Mangalore : “I never got such a heady royal treatment” said Tulsidas, one among a hundred displaced persons of Permude Village, taken for MSEZ creation, and now living in Kulai, outside Mangalore. He told pressmen that they were taken to polling booths in air-conditioned cars, and after voting, were dropped at Kulai on May 12. Over 900 displaced persons from Permude live in new homes outside MSEZ. Rival candidates arranged AC cars to pick up the voters to carry them to Permude booths, 10 kms. away. There was some confusion among the 600-odd registered voters as to where they had to vote in Block-3 which was their original home. 8 vehicles were engaged to bring them, but voters could not remember their favourite symbols and candidates at a critical time. Police personnel eased tensions among vote groups.