MYLAPORE TIMES - Polling in Mylapore: LIVE on-the-spot reports, photos

8.30 am

IS THIS PROPER?

On Adam Street, Mylapore, booth agents of BJP issued voter slips with party colours and symbol, outsiode 100 mts mark. Is this proper?, ask voters here.

– By Madhan Kumar

8.20am

MAJOR HICCUP AT BOOTH ON LUZ AVENUE. NOW OK.

At the GCC space off Nageswara Rao Park, Luz. The EVM blipped and conked out at 7.05 am approx. There were 100 -= 125 people in the Q. Frustrated. Some left. A new EVM was set up. Began working and polling started at 8.05 aqm approx.

Messy on a stuffy morning.

– By Baskar Seshadri

8.am

RAJA STREET RESIDENTS IN MANDAVELI VOTE

Seniors, women, less abled : have voted by 7:45 am at Raja Muthiah School R A Puram

– By Ganga Sridhar

7.45am

FOLLOW THE COLOUR CODES TO YOUR BOOTH.
Each booth in places where there are more than one booth are guven a colour code and a wide marking on the ground leads you to that booth – check booth number to choose the path.
This one at Raja Muthiah School, R A Puram
– By Ganga Sridhar

7.35am

THE INFO SHEETS ON CANDIDATES OF MYLAPORE

This is how the sheet looks like. Pasted on walls/boards at every booth. Lists all candidates and their symbols.

Seen at a booth on St Mary’s Road.

– By Madhan Kumar

7.25am

SENIORS IN Q BEFORE POLLING STARTS.

At Raja Muthiah School, R A Puram.

– By Ganga Sridhar

7.20 am

FROM SANJEEVI STREET
At 7.20 am – at Chennai Middle School, Prof.Sanjeevi Street.
About 15 voters were in the queue, posters of candidates are stuck on walls inside. 5 policemen are stationed outside the booth for security.
– By S. Rubaesh

7.20 am

RESTAURANTS CLOSED TILL 4 p.m.

All restaurants in the core of Mylapore remain closed. We learn the restaurants association has decided to open the joints after 4 p.m; allows the staff also to cast their ballot. Even small food joints were closed. Only one offered coffee and tiffin.

– By Baskar Seshadri

7.02am

IN THIRUVALLUVARPET

Brisk polling is on from 7 a.m. Many people say that they want to avoid the harsh sun of the day and hence were here early.

Smooth operations.

– By Baskar Seshadri

7.00am

FIRST IN THE Q! ALWARPET
Sankaranarayan from CIT Colony and his wife Gayathri arrived early at the booth in a GCC campus on C P Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet.
Sankar was the first in the Q for males to cast his vote; he is seen in the photo.

– By Gayathri Sankaranarayan

6.58 am

POLLING STARTS
Queues formed before 7 am at the booths in the campus of Chennai Middle School, St Marys Road. Slow start here.
– By Madhan Kumar

6.54 am.

KOLAM FOR VOTERS
Kolam expert and scholar Gayathri Sankaranarayan of CIT Colony shared this photo of her theme kolam designed at her doorstep; with a message for Voters in it. Like it? Did you see any themed kolams this morning? Share a photo.

6.45am

THIS APARTMENT PROMISES 100% VOTING

Keshav Apartment in Solaiappan Street had put up a banner on its gate stating that one hundred percent voting is assured by its residents. Solaiappan Street is near Chitrakulam in Mylapore.