After officers spent seven hours traveling for the rest of their lives and borrowing money from the defense to enable them to cast their ballots, five members of one family in a remote Himalayan village on May 20 voted in the poll.
Officials collected the election equipment on Sunday from Leh, stock area of the Himalayan national place of Ladakh, and boarded a bus, for the 180km trip to Warshi- where the only voters were Rinchen, 23, her parents, and grandparents.
Located about 20km from Siachen Glacier, dubbed the world’s highest battle where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have faced- off for four decades, Warshi is available by street but lacks amenities such as electricity, care and the computer.
When the engine they had brought up did not work, polling officers turned to the military Frontier Roads Organisation for energy.