PRANAB MUKHERJEE TO BREAK TRADITION - FIRST PRESIDENT TO CAST HIS VOTE BY POST
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Pranab Mukherjee - First President ever in India to use postal ballot in Lok Sabha Polls 2014....
Out of league from tradition, President Pranab Mukherjee will become the first Head of the State to use his franchise through postal ballot when he will cast his vote early next week for South Kolkata Lok Sabha polls.
Unlike the former President , existing President will not be voting in the national capital and will instead use postal ballot as he is a registered voter in 160 Rashbehari, part of South Kolkata parliamentary seat, which goes to polls on May 12, according to official sources .
Mukherjee has completed the form required for the postal ballot, the sources said, adding the logical basis for a course of action behind the President's decision was that he did not want to give any encumbrance to the state administration for making arrangements for his visit.
Unlike the former President , existing President will not be voting in the national capital and will instead use postal ballot as he is a registered voter in 160 Rashbehari, part of South Kolkata parliamentary seat, which goes to polls on May 12, according to official sources .
This makes country's 14th President Mukherjee , the first Head of the Country to use postal ballot.
Presidents in the past have been voting either at the Rashtrapati Bhavan polling station or at Nirman Bhavan.
Mukherjee's polling station is Nikhil Bharat Bangabhasha Parishad at Lake road in Kolkata.
South Kolkata will see a multi-cornered contest with Congress fielding Mala Roy and BJP nominating state President Tathagata Roy.
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