CHENNAI: Anyone who visited the polling centres in the western and northern suburbs of the city on Wednesday would have agreed that more women took part in the democratic process. Homemakers, who would otherwise be confined to their houses for most of the day, spent a minimum of three hours in long winding queues to exercise their right, taking a break from their routine work.Thirty nine-year-old Bhuvaneshwari of Kizhakku Mada Veedhi, Avadi, said it was only out of her own interest that she came to vote and was forced by anyone at home. “We are going to choose someone, who we know well and believe could do good for us. It is only out my own interest, I am standing here for over an hour. I left home after making breakfast for my children. I will make lunch only after I cast my vote,” she said.Some homemakers claimed that it was the only one way to prove their identity and it meant a lot to them, even if it involved travelling a long distance. Twenty five-year-old Pechiammal travelled a long distance from JP Estate to Nehru Nagar along with her kid Vignesh to cast her vote, as she had shifted her house recently. “I don’t mind travelling the distance with my son. I am, in fact, yet to feed him as I had to wait in the queue for about two hours. My husband too voted,” she said patting her crying son.There were also other woman voters who helped their elderly in-laws cast their vote first and spend hours together in queues waiting for the faulty EVMs to be fixed. “My mother-in-law suffers from seizures. So, I helped her vote first, sent her home and then waited for more than three hours in the queue to vote. I have to now go home and make lunch for her. It is our responsibility to vote,” said Jayanthi (35) of Patel Road in Avadi.
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