India
oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P
Silchar, Mar 15: Aimed at creating awareness among voters, an eight kilometre-long ‘rangoli’, perhaps the longest for such an initiative, has been created on a street of this Barak valley town ahead of the three-phased assembly elections in Assam.
Conceptualised by a young IAS officer, Keerthi Jalli, who is the Deputy Commissioner of Cachar district, around 3,000 people, including students, youths and women, participated in the ‘rangoli’ making event. The process to make the 8.13 kilometre-long ‘rangoli’ on a picturesque street of Silchar was started on Sunday morning and completed within 24 hours.
“The main objective of making the ‘rangoli’ is to create awareness among people about participating in our democratic process. People have spontaneously taken part in the event,” Jalli told reporters.
‘Rangoli’…