South Dinajpur organises short drama to woo voters

BALURGHAT: In a significant move by South Dinajpur district administration to motivate voters, a short drama by the local artistes of Kushmandi block was performed at the premises of District collectorate building on Wednesday.

"We have presented the drama through local folk artistes popularly familiar as KHON of Kushmandi block. It has been our target to motivate voters through our performance. District administration has helped us a lot in this connection," said KHON organiser, Sourav Roy. District Magistrate of South Dinajpur, Deepap Priya P organised a press conference on Wednesday in connection with 'Special Summary Revision of Photo Electoral Rolls of Intensive Nature' for January 1, 2019.

As per district electors, in connection with the publication of draft Electoral Rolls on January 2019, the total number of electors stands at 11,74,427 for the district.

While among them, there are 6,06,558 male voters and 5,67,819 female voters.

DM Deepap Priya P said: "We have set a specific target before publishing the draft of Electoral Rolls on September 01, 2018, while the final Electoral Rolls will be published on January 04, 2019. Local folk artistes of Kushmandi played a drama at our office premises on Wednesday which will inspire the voters."